Python is good now!

love César Soto Valero’s recent post I’m Switching to Python and Actually Liking It.

To my great surprise, I’ve found that Python, and everything around it, has really improved a lot over the last decades.

Here are just three examples:

1. Python has created a very complete ecosystem of libraries and tools for processing and analyzing data.
2. Python has gotten faster with optimized static compilers like Cython.
3. Python has done a good job of hiding its legacy ugliness (such as __init__, __new__, and similar aberrations), sweetening its syntax to accommodate developers with good taste.

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