> I also find that python has reserved a whole bunch of keywords that I can't use as function names, making APIs hard to create with appropriate names.
Python is one of the imperative languages with fewer number keywords in existence. Compare for example the number of keywords in Python[1] with Javascript[2].
Maybe you're confusing the built-in functions in Python language, like len() or str(), however since they're functions you can reassign them (not a good idea, however in a limited scope it works).
> It has so little syntax you can't tell the difference between various things. A variable declaration, a reassignment, a keyword, a whatever else, they don't have any visual distinction from each other.
The fact that you don't know the difference between keywords and built-in functions makes your argument weak. But I will bite, if you're having difficult to make the distinction between a keyword and a variable you probably have a very bad editor. Syntax highlighting helps a lot here (like in almost every other language).
> You also have to pollute your code with self everywhere.
I really like the fact that self is explicit in Python. It makes OO patterns more explicit (there is no magic variable like self or this, just a parameter that is passed as the first argument in any Class method) and it helps making a distinction between attributes and local variables. Really, I would go even further and make super() a method from Object, so instead of calling a magic method super() I would call:
class Test:
def __init__(self):
self.super().__init__(self)
Ugly? Maybe, however it is so much easier to understand what is happening.
> has no where near the number of libraries on github as javascript
Most JavaScript libraries in GitHub are pure toys/garbage, though. Python has a number of useful libraries and if you don't concur with me, please give examples of areas where Python is lacking a good library (I can easily give an example for JavaScript: ML and scientifc computing).
Python is one of the imperative languages with fewer number keywords in existence. Compare for example the number of keywords in Python[1] with Javascript[2].
Maybe you're confusing the built-in functions in Python language, like len() or str(), however since they're functions you can reassign them (not a good idea, however in a limited scope it works).
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_syntax_and_semantics#Ke... [2]: https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_reserved.asp
> It has so little syntax you can't tell the difference between various things. A variable declaration, a reassignment, a keyword, a whatever else, they don't have any visual distinction from each other.
The fact that you don't know the difference between keywords and built-in functions makes your argument weak. But I will bite, if you're having difficult to make the distinction between a keyword and a variable you probably have a very bad editor. Syntax highlighting helps a lot here (like in almost every other language).
> You also have to pollute your code with self everywhere.
I really like the fact that self is explicit in Python. It makes OO patterns more explicit (there is no magic variable like self or this, just a parameter that is passed as the first argument in any Class method) and it helps making a distinction between attributes and local variables. Really, I would go even further and make super() a method from Object, so instead of calling a magic method super() I would call:
Ugly? Maybe, however it is so much easier to understand what is happening.> has no where near the number of libraries on github as javascript
Most JavaScript libraries in GitHub are pure toys/garbage, though. Python has a number of useful libraries and if you don't concur with me, please give examples of areas where Python is lacking a good library (I can easily give an example for JavaScript: ML and scientifc computing).