Python

[Gabriel Peterson]

python general
bonus:
whats our official opinion of python

[Justin Turner]

I had to use python for a university assignment once.
I didn't like it.

[Brayden Cooper]

Comfiest language in existence

[Cooper Bell]

Based language. Triggers the unemployable half of Sup Forums like a boss for being so easy and useful.

[Jonathan Nguyen]

Was able to make my first full program using python. Its simple to use yet powerful enough to be useful.

[Gavin Sanders]

trying to git gud at it. Have done some stuff here and there.
I have a hard time seeing the use for anything serious, mostly because of performance.
It's nice to prototype in, but am I better off just going all out C++ so I can prototype faster in that and not go down on performance?

I also have some security concerns, though that's entirely there in C++ too, but it's easier to avoid because your use of memory and types (thinking int overflows) is more transparent.

Thoughts?

[Austin Peterson]

good high-level language for writing easy APIs for automating low-level processes

shit slow and sucks with arithmetic tho

i use it frequently to automate running blocks of reusable SQL queries. SQL handles the number crunching, Python just makes it dead simple to glue the blocks together in whatever order you want

[Xavier Allen]

>sucks with arithmetic
Numpy

[Noah Howard]

Python is very comfy for scripting, but I wouldn't write any projects in it.

It has it's niche.

[Thomas Smith]

numpy is effectively just a big wrapper class for C scripts, basically what i described except i used SQL as an example

stackoverflow.com/questions/1825857/how-much-of-numpy-and-scipy-is-in-c