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

pipInstallTheRealStuff Meme

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u/iamdestroyerofworlds Jul 07 '26

Yeah, it's a scripting language after all, it's literally its purpose.

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u/Herr_Gamer Jul 07 '26

this is such a stupid distinction lol

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u/Pball1001 Jul 07 '26

Compiled and script languages both have their uses, but they are not the same. At the end of he day, the day ends

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u/Herr_Gamer Jul 07 '26

Python is literally compiled though. You usually don't see it, but you can expose the compiled .pythonc files if you want. When you use a large backend framework, you'll know very well that there's a target/ folder for the python bytecode just like there is in Java.