points by stackghost 3 days ago | 0 comments
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.
[–] pphysch 3 days ago
[–] stackghost 3 days ago
> Who is cultivating a "favorite language"?
I don’t know, but deflecting legitimate criticism of a language by calling it “language purism” seems pretty emotional to me.
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.