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Pros of AWS Firecracker
Pros of Python
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    • 1.2K
      Great libraries
    • 961
      Readable code
    • 846
      Beautiful code
    • 787
      Rapid development
    • 689
      Large community
    • 435
      Open source
    • 393
      Elegant
    • 282
      Great community
    • 272
      Object oriented
    • 220
      Dynamic typing
    • 77
      Great standard library
    • 59
      Very fast
    • 55
      Functional programming
    • 49
      Easy to learn
    • 45
      Scientific computing
    • 35
      Great documentation
    • 29
      Productivity
    • 28
      Easy to read
    • 28
      Matlab alternative
    • 23
      Simple is better than complex
    • 20
      It's the way I think
    • 19
      Imperative
    • 18
      Free
    • 18
      Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
    • 17
      Powerfull language
    • 17
      Machine learning support
    • 16
      Fast and simple
    • 14
      Scripting
    • 12
      Explicit is better than implicit
    • 11
      Ease of development
    • 10
      Clear and easy and powerfull
    • 9
      Unlimited power
    • 8
      It's lean and fun to code
    • 8
      Import antigravity
    • 7
      Print "life is short, use python"
    • 7
      Python has great libraries for data processing
    • 6
      Although practicality beats purity
    • 6
      Flat is better than nested
    • 6
      Great for tooling
    • 6
      Rapid Prototyping
    • 6
      Readability counts
    • 6
      High Documented language
    • 6
      I love snakes
    • 6
      Fast coding and good for competitions
    • 6
      There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
    • 6
      Now is better than never
    • 5
      Great for analytics
    • 5
      Lists, tuples, dictionaries
    • 4
      Easy to learn and use
    • 4
      Simple and easy to learn
    • 4
      Easy to setup and run smooth
    • 4
      Web scraping
    • 4
      CG industry needs
    • 4
      Socially engaged community
    • 4
      Complex is better than complicated
    • 4
      Multiple Inheritence
    • 4
      Beautiful is better than ugly
    • 4
      Plotting
    • 3
      If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id
    • 3
      Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules
    • 3
      Pip install everything
    • 3
      List comprehensions
    • 3
      No cruft
    • 3
      Generators
    • 3
      Import this
    • 3
      It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi
    • 3
      Many types of collections
    • 3
      If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g
    • 2
      Batteries included
    • 2
      Should START with this but not STICK with This
    • 2
      Powerful language for AI
    • 2
      Can understand easily who are new to programming
    • 2
      Flexible and easy
    • 2
      Good for hacking
    • 2
      A-to-Z
    • 2
      Because of Netflix
    • 2
      Only one way to do it
    • 2
      Better outcome
    • 1
      Sexy af
    • 1
      Slow
    • 1
      Securit
    • 0
      Ni
    • 0
      Powerful

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    Cons of AWS Firecracker
    Cons of Python
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      • 53
        Still divided between python 2 and python 3
      • 28
        Performance impact
      • 26
        Poor syntax for anonymous functions
      • 22
        GIL
      • 19
        Package management is a mess
      • 14
        Too imperative-oriented
      • 12
        Hard to understand
      • 12
        Dynamic typing
      • 12
        Very slow
      • 8
        Indentations matter a lot
      • 8
        Not everything is expression
      • 7
        Incredibly slow
      • 7
        Explicit self parameter in methods
      • 6
        Requires C functions for dynamic modules
      • 6
        Poor DSL capabilities
      • 6
        No anonymous functions
      • 5
        Fake object-oriented programming
      • 5
        Threading
      • 5
        The "lisp style" whitespaces
      • 5
        Official documentation is unclear.
      • 5
        Hard to obfuscate
      • 5
        Circular import
      • 4
        Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"
      • 4
        The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit
      • 4
        Not suitable for autocomplete
      • 2
        Meta classes
      • 1
        Training wheels (forced indentation)

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      What is AWS Firecracker?

      Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services that provide serverless operational models. Firecracker runs workloads in lightweight virtual machines, called microVMs, which combine the security and isolation properties provided by hardware virtualization technology with the speed and flexibility of containers.

      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.

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