Numpy is over 2 decades old. Pytorch is a decade old. Python devs know what "right tool for the job" means and focus on solving problems instead of being language purists.

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stackghost 4 hours ago | parent [-]

This has nothing to do with purism. I use python all the time, where it makes sense.

What I don't do is cultivate a "favorite language" and make it my whole identity, and then take criticism of that language as some sort of personal affront. Python objectively has some serious flaws. That shouldn't make anyone emotional, and I don't know why people get their backs up like this.

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pphysch 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Who is cultivating a "favorite language"? I missed that part. Agreed that this should not be an emotional issue, that is unprofessional.

Problem with any popular language is an outsider sees one or two statistically-likely codebases that are total turds, and then gets one-shot by the Goomba fallacy.

	▲	stackghost 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> Who is cultivating a "favorite language"? I don’t know, but deflecting criticism of a language by calling it “language purism” seems pretty emotional to me.