This is a question for people more experienced with Python, but everybody feel free to answer if you feel like you can provide something decent to the discussion.

Also feel free to explain why you feel that way and your experiences with Python and the paradigms.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Neither: it's a piece of shit.

If I had a gun to my head and had to answer, it'd be procedural because scopes are a lie in this language.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like the cut of your jib

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Python is good if you need to write a hundred or two or maybe three lines of code.

Its not good for large programs.

Conversely its good for large systems. Facebook makes all its microservices in python because the data model and how that scales along with data safety matters much more than a microservice taking 10-100 times as long to execute.

I consider it a scripting language. Just one without integer++ for some goddamn reason.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

My issue with Python is that so many "pythonic" practices lead to horrible-to-read code. List comprehensions are nice, except for when they go more than one level deep. kwargs leads to horrible code. Lots of valid Python code cannot be typed correctly, which makes editor inference far worse. Don't get me started on metaclasses and the like.

Python right now is basically what JavaScript was before TS.

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago

Python is good if you need to write a hundred or two or maybe three lines of code

Sooooo, any language?