I mean by useless is it's so slow you can't make games or even big projects for GUI, only you can do is AI/ML, Data Science, and basic stuff. I think Rust is better because of its speed and language capabilities?
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I don't like python personally, but saying its useless is quite far detached from reality considering all the python projects.
You can argue its slow and i would agree, but if people make alot of stuff with it its clearly not useless.
A programing language cannot be better than another one because its personal opinion.
You're correct, but we cannot avoid that it's limites to basic stuff, you can't make a facebook with pytho with good speed.
You may want to check your assumptions. Facebook's back-end was developed with PHP, probably because it was the web back-end language when it was originally developed. However, two later Meta products, Instagram and Threads, used Python for their back-end. Source: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/09/07/culture/threads-inside-story-metas-newest-social-app/
Originally Facebook was made with php...
Unfortunately, I don't think that this is a useful argument because from what I understand, php is significantly faster than python.
Likely depends on what exactly you are doing
Sure, there will always be exceptions for certain use-cases, but my understanding is that PHP is faster that python in most cases. By the way, I didn't say that to put python down, but just to point out that php wasn't a good argument to defend python. Python itself is a good argument to defend python. See my parallel reply to yours, where I point out that Instagram and Threads both use python for their back-ends.
I mean I'm posting from PyLova (Python-based and it's been mostly good. I was truly skeptical of the viability of a Python-based Fediverse platform when PieFed first dropped, and I'm still skeptical of Python over Rust from a purely technical perspective, but it's been smooth sailing on this instance so far 🤷
99.9999% of projects will never need to reach the scale of Facebook
Even if they do, Python still seems to do the job. Instagram and Threads use python for their back-ends: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/09/07/culture/threads-inside-story-metas-newest-social-app/
Pyrefly is a python type checker and it's made by meta. I doubt they'd be doing that if they weren't using python.