Python: the Java of scripting languages.

this doesn't make any sense. GG tho

I didn't find any similarities between Java and Python.

NotTrueException

Python isn't as verbose
Python doesn't use strict typing (type hinting != strict types)
Python doesn't... well the list goes on.

Explain yourself.

@C0D4
It's slow
Any program written in it is unreadable of that program actually does something useful
It's slow
There's 15 supported but not supported but secretly supported versions of it
The package manager is garbage

Then again... Every programming language sucks. @SuaveSteve, explain yourself!

@Lucky-Loek you talking about python or java 🤔I'm thinking python.

@C0D4 both but mostly Python. Though I honestly never know which JRE to install. I need Java once every 8-9 months. Now I can choose between JRE 8, 10, 12, 13 and 14. They're supposed to be backwards compatible but I've had multiple apps break on multiple versions.

@Lucky-Loek somehow java has gone from a major version every few years to about 12 months.

Not sure what they are racing against though.

@Lucky-Loek

Great. I have to explain myself. Why do I assume people can read my mind? I must be a woman.

I’m referring to the parallel effect they had on the industry, albeit at different decades.

Java tried to be a uniform and simple language and it ended up being ubiquitous, in every introductory college course and ENTERPRISE.

But what other upstart popular language did colleges and ENTERPRISE reach for, experiment and start using?

I’ll admit, what I’m getting at is a bit dated as the space is much for contested now than it was in the time of Java dominating and Python’s surge in use. Now we have TypeScript, Rust and Go trying to be “cool language that does everything”.

@SuaveSteve Rust isn't trying to be cool. It is cool

FYI Java has groovy as a scripting language.
Not to mention java itself can now be written as a script...

@netikras And it's not too bad either. I just recently found out how amazing the VS Code Java plugin is. No workspace, project, anything. Just write a few lines of Java and hit run

Not to mention JShell