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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Not even "not so bad", I would say that as a scripting language it's fantastic. If I'm writing any actually complex code, then static typing is much easier to work with, but if you want to hack together some stuff, python is great.

It also interfaces extremely easily with C++ through pybind11, so for most of what I do, I end up writing the major code base in C++ and a lightweight wrapper in Python, because then you don't have to think about anything when using the lib, just hack away in dynamically typed Python, and let your compiled C++ do the heavy lifting.