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🔗 I Probably Hate Writing Code in Your Favorite Language
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I probably hate writing code in your favorite programming language, whatever it may be. This is because I get frustrated by basically all of the top 10 languages you'll find listed anywhere for various reasons. Do I hate programming in Python? You bet I do. "But it's Python! Python is the best programming language on earth!" I can hear you say. I grant that it has its place. Python wins because its ecosystem of libraries is so huge and because there are so many resources for new users. It's also garbage collected, which means memory safety is not an issue. It the current hot thing, because there is so much support for machine learning in Python.

But my problem is that Python is a boring language. This isn't a bad thing necessarily. If you're interested in solving a problem with a known solution and you're doing it for business, the a boring language is probably better for you than, say, Haskell.

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