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python trades speed and correctness heavily in favor of dx. Other languages provide drastically increased speed and correctness with comparable dx. I understand that lang pref extremely subjective, but if those high level values are THE metrics to analyze on (+domain), Iā€™d courteously suggest that there are greener pastures.

https://cdaringe.github.io/programming-language-selector/




The linked tool does not give any suggestions without choosing a subdomain, but if you average the DX suggestions for each domain the top result is javascript. I don't know many sane people who would argue javascript has a better DX than python.

> Other languages provide drastically increased speed and correctness with comparable dx.

Like what?

IMO javascript has both terrible DX and performance and should be avoided unless you are doing front end.

Go quite a bit of boilerplate and initial setup to get going. It also requires you to think about pointer, pass by value vs reference, etc.

You can get someone who is brand new to programming writing simple Python scripts in less than an hour.


Python DX is terrible, Go DX is awesome




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