I used it quite a bit for writing tools for applications like Maya and Blender as it's the only fully supported API surface. I take it it's pretty bad for anything more complex. I notice it's used quite a bit in science and math communities too.

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joshheitzman an hour ago | parent [-]

It's not. OP just has a hate-on for Python. Python is widely used in many domains and has one of the richest ecosystems of packages.

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Yoofie 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Popular and/or widespread does not mean good. Common misconception.

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biglost an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I love Python,i have been writting Python since 2.2 era, Is great. Bit it's slow as hell, Django is slow, and the filters and custom shit to hit db on the template makes it slower. The parameters styles are too many and now instead of removing things they keep adding features, ok no Gil Is great but match? They should stop now. I hope i will never have to use custom cython modules again. I have even used Python in asterisk agi fastagi etc. But it's really slow and we should accept that

	▲	joshheitzman 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I don't really disagree with any of that and I have my own complaints about Python. Personally I would have been happy if they stopped at Python 2.7 but I also have numerous complaints about all of the programming languages I use heavily. There's no perfect language.