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0 pointslinspace5y ago0 comments

I hear very often criticism of Python's transition but considering how insanely popular the language has grown I don't understand why.

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EamonnMR5y ago· 2 in thread

Python2 was poised to take over the world and be the next Java. 3 is losing ground to Node, Go, Rust, even Lua. 3 is a really fun and productive language to work in as long as you don't need to think about bytes.

paulryanrogers5y ago

My guess is Python wouldn't have done much better anyway. The GIL and lack of client side support kept it out of a lot of use cases.

Demiurge5y ago

Really? I’ve been using Python for 15 years and never heard anyone say “GIL”. How and what is GIL preventing?

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stjohnswarts5y ago

Statistics and probability.

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