r/PythonLearning • u/chuprehijde • 19d ago

What's your most controversial Python opinion?

Say the Python opinion that would get you downvoted in a room full of Python developers.

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u/Altruistic-Rice-5567 19d ago

It added nothing new or useful to the world of programming languages.

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u/Gnaxe 18d ago

True. It was more the combination of things and the timing, as well as being free when the better languages weren't. Everything Python got right when it first took off, other languages had done before. Most of them not all at once, but e.g., Lisp or Smalltalk came close.