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  • I don't know, I used gnome for a while and I just felt like I was using toy apps. But I think that comes down to personal preference. KDE definitly has the bigger apps like Kdenlive and Krita.

  • Python is overrated and overused.
  • Yeah that point was not entirely accurate. What I meant was, that a np.array and a list don't work together. Coming from julia and matlab it just does not make sense to me, why I can't use a function written for a list for a np.array even if they basically represent the exaxt same thing.

    Julia for example hast linalg as a module but functions work on lists with no problem.

  • Python is overrated and overused.
  • Python is strongly typed, but dynamically checked. Working with other languages I just found, that the type errors in python are the hardest to catch and to debug, but maybe I am just more used to othet languages

    I see it's use as language to write small scripts, I just don't see much use besides that.

    Here is a article talking about the speed of compiled python vs Julia. I don't see why it is better to go to all these extra steps just to end up with something slower. https://www.matecdev.com/posts/julia-python-numba-cython.html

  • Python is overrated and overused.
  • Yeah, ofc every language must have a type system, the problem is, that this is not enforced. I.e 3 == '3' throws no error, when working with dataframes for example this can be a pain in the ass. But yeah, I don't say that nobody should use Python (although the title is a bit dramatic) I just think that there are better alternatives out there.

  • Python is overrated and overused.
  • I mean others don't seem to have the same problem with Python as me, so if it is right for them, I can't really complain, but I would use the following languages for the following tasks

    Scientific Computing (my main area): I prefer Julia, it is faster, feels more intuitive and feels like a modern python for scientific computing

    Web: there are many great frameworks out there, i am intrigued by phoenix for elixir

    Game Developement: Nobody use python in games to distribute for anything heavy I hope, but for scripting I would use Lua

    Learning: Python is often the first language, that people learn, and I guess that also explains it's widespread use to some degree. I would teach something less high-level like C as a first language, although I think writing "high-level code" also has a learning curve to it.

    Scripting: Fine, I guess python is great for small scripts, although one could also use Ruby

  • Python is overrated and overused.

    Python is the most popular programming language and beloved by many. However I can't understand why (this is still the case in 2024).

    Here are my main gripes with it:

    • It is slow, performance intensive tasks have to be offloaded to other languages, which makes it complicated to analyse. Moreover I wonder how many kwH could have been saved if programms were written in more performant languages. (and there are better alternatives out there)
    • The missing type system makes it easy to make errors, and the missing compiler makes it hard to catch them
    • It has no linear algebra built in, so you always have to convert things to numpy arrays, which is quite annoying
    • Managing virtual environments and pip packages feels overly complicated

    I guess much comes down to personal, but I just can't understand the love for python.

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