Comment by bnchrch

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.