Someone once told me that Python is the programming language for the layperson.
To what extent is that statement accurate?
Python
Benjamin Long
Easton Garcia
Its this generation's VB6
Dylan Collins
It's about as bad as C "++".
William Young
Elaborate
Owen Wood
What's a faster alternative to python?
Alexander Rodriguez
Depends on what you mean by faster. Te answer could vary from "literally everything" to "Ruby"
James Evans
20 years ago VB was peddled as the language for lay personnel to engage in RAD. Now that it is dead, python is the replacement. Its basically pseudocode.
Henry Garcia
>faster
runtime speed
Joseph Powell
look into cython if you want to make mathematical functions be faster
Brandon Parker
I think everything is faster than Python except for Ruby.
Elijah Thompson
Cython is a meme. Use C.
Parker Perez
>cython
Still slower than Javascript. Kek.
Alexander Wright
>you have to learn another language on top of Python and C
>slow compile times
>very easy to fuck up, because it allows an arbitrary amount of Python
>not as powerful as just writing it in C
Just write a C module.
Julian Robinson
Python is the slowest
Angel Walker
Garbage
Jace Hughes
the layperson does not program not even in python
Julian Lee
>layperson -> lazy person
Now it's accurate.
Jackson Carter
To the extent that the language is popular in colleges and universities. Python is actually more difficult compared to other languages like Javascript.
Matthew Reed
cython
you can embed it in python
what its built for
python/cython is not slow
Hudson Foster
>vb6 compared to python
oh fuck off
Henry Martin
100%
Parker Perez
If python were actually worthless, could you still use it in place of pseudocode and then on completing a project/running into runtime errors, replace relevant sections of code with something faster?