https://pydevtools.com/tags/polyglot/ The Python Developer Tooling Handbook is a comprehensive guide to Python development tools including uv, ruff, pytest, mypy, ty, and more. Hugo -- gohugo.io en Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:43:00 -0400 https://pydevtools.com/blog/python-is-good-now/ Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:43:00 -0400 Tim Hopper https://pydevtools.com/blog/python-is-good-now/ <p>love <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cesarsotovalero/"target="_blank" rel="noopener">César Soto Valero</a>&rsquo;s recent post <a href="https://www.cesarsotovalero.net/blog/i-am-switching-to-python-and-actually-liking-it.html"target="_blank" rel="noopener">I&rsquo;m Switching to Python and Actually Liking It</a>.</p> <blockquote> <p>To my great surprise, I’ve found that Python, and everything around it, has really improved a lot over the last decades.</p> <p>Here are just three examples:</p> <ol> <li>Python has created a very complete ecosystem of libraries and tools for processing and analyzing data.</li> <li>Python has gotten faster with optimized static compilers like Cython.</li> <li>Python has done a good job of hiding its legacy ugliness (such as <code>__init__</code>, <code>__new__</code>, and similar aberrations), sweetening its syntax to accommodate developers with good taste.</li> </ol> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.cesarsotovalero.net/blog/i-am-switching-to-python-and-actually-liking-it.html"target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read the whole post</a>.</p>