▲ 72 ▼ Why Is Python So Popular in 2025? (blog.jetbrains.com) submitted 11 months ago by namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev 94 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 32 points 11 months ago (1 child) Python is not the best at anything, but is the second best at almost everything. That's the reason I use it. Everything I need to do, I know I can do it in python, maybe isn't going to be the better or faster it could be, but it will work. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] feddylemmy@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 child) Yeah, Python is fast enough. Being assembly-fast is just not that important for a lot of things. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] j5906@feddit.org 4 points 11 months ago* This. As a chemist I just need to do rather simple calculations, plots and sometimes use a package or two. My total yearly compute time is like 1 hour in python. Spending 5 years learning c, assembly, data science and what not just to reduce that to 1 minute is not really worth it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] feddylemmy@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 child) Yeah, Python is fast enough. Being assembly-fast is just not that important for a lot of things. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] j5906@feddit.org 4 points 11 months ago* This. As a chemist I just need to do rather simple calculations, plots and sometimes use a package or two. My total yearly compute time is like 1 hour in python. Spending 5 years learning c, assembly, data science and what not just to reduce that to 1 minute is not really worth it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] j5906@feddit.org 4 points 11 months ago* This. As a chemist I just need to do rather simple calculations, plots and sometimes use a package or two. My total yearly compute time is like 1 hour in python. Spending 5 years learning c, assembly, data science and what not just to reduce that to 1 minute is not really worth it. permalink fedilink source parent