I'm willing to be the vast majority of Python code in existence right now is academic in nature.
Most academics--from an engineering standpoint, mind!--write really shitty and garbage code, under deadline to submit yet another paper for the mill.
There is no surprise that they would be unable/unwilling to appreciate the long-term damage they inflict on themselves when using what should be deprecated features.
Meanwhile, Rubyists and Node rockstars are laughing all the way to the bank, and the Erlang bros are already there.
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Okay, fine, downvote, but at least mention which part of that statement you disagree with.
While I won't speculate as to why people downvoted (and I didnt downvote), I personally would disagree with your first assertion. Python is used in production all over the place, particularly for web-facing applications (obviously all Django sites but also large sites like Google) but also applications like Dropbox.
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I'm willing to be the vast majority of Python code in existence right now is academic in nature.
Most academics--from an engineering standpoint, mind!--write really shitty and garbage code, under deadline to submit yet another paper for the mill.
There is no surprise that they would be unable/unwilling to appreciate the long-term damage they inflict on themselves when using what should be deprecated features.
Meanwhile, Rubyists and Node rockstars are laughing all the way to the bank, and the Erlang bros are already there.
EDIT:
Okay, fine, downvote, but at least mention which part of that statement you disagree with.
While I won't speculate as to why people downvoted (and I didnt downvote), I personally would disagree with your first assertion. Python is used in production all over the place, particularly for web-facing applications (obviously all Django sites but also large sites like Google) but also applications like Dropbox.
"Okay, fine, downvote, but at least mention which part of that statement you disagree with." rockstars... bros...