Comment by imiric
That's overly harsh IMO.
Python is not perfect—no language is—but it arguably has the lowest barrier to entry for new programmers, with far fewer "wats" than languages of its kind and era (certainly less than JS). Sure, its reference implementation is not the most performant, but it easily interoperates with C/C++, and alternative implementations like PyPy are also relatively easy to switch to, so it can be performant when it needs to. Dynamic typing is not great for maintaining large codebases, but with the advent of gradual typing, this shouldn't be a major hindrance anymore. It has a great standard library, and a huge ecosystem. My only major gripe with it is the packaging and the insane amount of tooling around it, which I doubt will ever be resolved at this point. But Python is not so bad overall.
I don't know if its overly harsh, but ill give you harsh.
The thing is Python deserves all the hate JS gets and more.
1. The foot guns are real and mean (look up Mutable Default Arguments)
2. The language pushes beginners towards some bad habits (Deep inheritance) and away from good ones (Functional)
3. The performance is very poor (both single and multi threaded)
4. There are no real safe guards, and unexpected type behaviour
5. The packaging story is archaic with no fix in site. (There exist no standard out of the box way to guarantee deterministic builds)
Sure its good at Data, but that is a cultural accident, not by design.