Python is good now!

Python is good now!

July 16, 2025

I 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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