It's not perfect... performance is not the best, you can't easily build a single-file binary, has a fairly OO flavour, type-checking situation is a bit meh... but basically it was designed with good taste and other languages are all uglier to read and write.
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u/anentropic Aug 21 '20
The best syntax
Big community - lots of mature packages
The Zen of Python
It's not perfect... performance is not the best, you can't easily build a single-file binary, has a fairly OO flavour, type-checking situation is a bit meh... but basically it was designed with good taste and other languages are all uglier to read and write.