I believe that people should RTFM. Any arguments that is predicated on not reading the documentation for the language, and then pretending that it is somehow opaque, I am going to dismiss to be quite honest.

> Well, we've so far been restricted to function names which is what the claim was. There are plenty of cryptic other names in Python like ABCMeta, deriving from `object`, MRO, slots, dir, spec, etc.

You are still cherry-picking things to attempt to prove a point. I don't find this convincing.

> The idea you can't do RAD with libraries is insane. Games are developed rapidly, and a lot of game engines use C#. The fact that you're using Unity, a very large dependency, means nothing regarding whether you can do RAD, which is more about having the right architecture, tooling, and development cycle.

I didn't say that you can't do RAD with libraries. You didn't understand what I was saying at all.

I can get up and running with Python in mere minutes. It doesn't require a application templates/scaffolding apps to get started (like C# and JS/TS). You just need a text editor and a terminal. Doing that is still quicker and easier to get something working than all the gumpf you have to do with the other languages. I BTW was a JS/TS and .NET for about 15 years

I just wish there were more Python and Go jobs in the UK.

By that standard nothing is. At some point if you are using a programming language you are going to have to RTFM. None of things you cherry-picked would be used by a novice either.

Every example you gave are what I call are "Ronsil" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_exactly_what_it_says_on_t...).

Even the pickle.dumps() example is obvious when you read the description for the module and works exactly the same to json.dumps(), which works similarly to dumps() methods and terminology in other programming languages.

I feel like I am repeating myself.

> A lot of languages work for RAD including Clojure, C#, and JavaScript. This is nothing special about Python.

Nonsense. None of those I would say are RAD. JavaScript literally has no standard lib and requires node/npm these days and that can be a complete rigmarole in itself. C# these relies heavily on DI. I have no idea about Clojure so won't comment.

All the RAD stuff in C# and JS is heavily reliant on third party scripts and templates, that have all sorts of annoying quirks and bloat your codebase. That isn't the case with Python at all

I use python for some basic scripting and I don't write anything huge. Most of these do roughly what I would expect.

> __new__ is a static method that’s responsible for creating and returning a new instance (object) of the class. It takes the class as its first argument followed by additional arguments.

> In Python, __init__ is an instance method that initializes a newly created instance (object). It takes the object as its first argument followed by additional arguments

> Python id() function returns the “identity” of the object. The identity of an object is an integer, which is guaranteed to be unique and constant for this object during its lifetime.

The pickel.dumps() is the only one that is a bit odd until to find out what the pickle module does.

> The accessibility of Python is overrated.

The accessibility isn't overrated. Python has something that is missing from a lot of languages that isn't often talked about. It is really good a RAD (Rapid Application Development). You can quickly put something together that works reasonably well, it also is enough of the proper language that you can build bigger things in it.

> It's a language with warts and issues just like the others.

Like every other one.

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