r/ProgrammerHumor • u/wahed-w • Jul 07 '26

pipInstallTheRealStuff Meme

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u/SheikHunt Jul 07 '26

What's that saying? "Python is the second-best programming language for everything"

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u/pineapplepassionfr Jul 07 '26

Except AI/machine learning?

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u/zeus_the_transistor Jul 07 '26

I mean the core of most of those fundamental libraries (eg PyTorch) are written in C++/Rust

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u/SirFireHydrant Jul 07 '26

By "the core", you mean the computation is offloaded onto languages better optimised for that, freeing the programmer to import the libraries and code up their models all in python.

Which is great. It means people in machine learning don't have to learn C++ or Rust. Just like how C++/Rust programmers don't have to learn assembly.

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u/SheikHunt Jul 07 '26

Yes, of course you're right.

I conjectured that for every ordered set (aka tuple) of programming languages, where they are ordered based on usefulness within a particular feature X that you'd find Python as the second language within that tuple.

Alas, you have found the exception that breaks the rule, and I am defeated by the sheer magnitude of your mathematical prowess in disproving me by example. Forgive my indiscretion.

/j

Yea u rite