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- Concurrency Support60
- Real time, distributed applications60
- Fault tolerance56
- Soft real-time35
- Open source31
- Functional programming21
- Message passing20
- Immutable data15
- Works as expected13
- Facebook chat uses it at backend5
- Practical4
- Knowledgeable community4
- Bullets included3
Pros of Python
- Great libraries1.2K
- Readable code959
- Beautiful code844
- Rapid development785
- Large community688
- Open source434
- Elegant391
- Great community280
- Object oriented272
- Dynamic typing218
- Great standard library77
- Very fast58
- Functional programming54
- Easy to learn48
- Scientific computing45
- Great documentation35
- Easy to read28
- Productivity28
- Matlab alternative28
- Simple is better than complex23
- It's the way I think20
- Imperative19
- Free18
- Very programmer and non-programmer friendly18
- Machine learning support17
- Powerfull language17
- Fast and simple16
- Scripting14
- Explicit is better than implicit12
- Ease of development11
- Clear and easy and powerfull10
- Unlimited power9
- It's lean and fun to code8
- Import antigravity8
- Python has great libraries for data processing7
- Print "life is short, use python"7
- Flat is better than nested6
- Readability counts6
- Rapid Prototyping6
- Fast coding and good for competitions6
- Now is better than never6
- There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious6
- High Documented language6
- I love snakes6
- Although practicality beats purity6
- Great for tooling6
- Great for analytics5
- Lists, tuples, dictionaries5
- Multiple Inheritence4
- Complex is better than complicated4
- Socially engaged community4
- Easy to learn and use4
- Simple and easy to learn4
- Web scraping4
- Easy to setup and run smooth4
- Beautiful is better than ugly4
- Plotting4
- CG industry needs4
- No cruft3
- It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi3
- Many types of collections3
- If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g3
- If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id3
- Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules3
- Pip install everything3
- List comprehensions3
- Generators3
- Import this3
- Flexible and easy2
- Batteries included2
- Can understand easily who are new to programming2
- Powerful language for AI2
- Should START with this but not STICK with This2
- A-to-Z2
- Because of Netflix2
- Only one way to do it2
- Better outcome2
- Good for hacking2
- Securit1
- Slow1
- Sexy af1
- Ni0
- Powerful0
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Cons of Python
- Still divided between python 2 and python 353
- Performance impact28
- Poor syntax for anonymous functions26
- GIL22
- Package management is a mess19
- Too imperative-oriented14
- Hard to understand12
- Dynamic typing12
- Very slow12
- Indentations matter a lot8
- Not everything is expression8
- Incredibly slow7
- Explicit self parameter in methods7
- Requires C functions for dynamic modules6
- Poor DSL capabilities6
- No anonymous functions6
- Fake object-oriented programming5
- Threading5
- The "lisp style" whitespaces5
- Official documentation is unclear.5
- Hard to obfuscate5
- Circular import5
- Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"4
- The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit4
- Not suitable for autocomplete4
- Meta classes2
- Training wheels (forced indentation)1
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What is Erlang?
Some of Erlang's uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop these systems.
What is Python?
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
What is Stan?
A state-of-the-art platform for statistical modeling and high-performance statistical computation. Used for statistical modeling, data analysis, and prediction in the social, biological, and physical sciences, engineering, and business.
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Elixir
Elixir leverages the Erlang VM, known for running low-latency, distributed and fault-tolerant systems, while also being successfully used in web development and the embedded software domain.
Haskell
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Golang
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Clojure
Clojure is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system.
Akka
Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.