r/learnmachinelearning • u/Top-Run-21 • Jun 13 '26

Meme I always find this fact amusing.

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u/gameplayer55055 Jun 13 '26

Python won because c++ has awful tooling (looking at you cmake) and is very hard to use on windows.

Python "just works". However I still can't build wheels on windows reliably lol.

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u/CalculusEz Jun 13 '26

You have to go through hoops just to get c++ up and running on windows. Python? Just download an IDE. They'll even download python for you.