Python may be easy but it’s a goddamn mess

By industry leaders and academic researchers alike, Python is touted as one of the absolute best languages for novice programmers. And they’re not wrong — but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t confuse the shit out of programming newbies anyway. Take dynamic typing as an example. It seems amazing at first: Python literally figures out by itself what sort of value a variable might take, and you don’t need to waste another line of code by telling it. This makes everything go faster! At first. Then you mess it up on one single line — yes, one! — and your…This story continues at The Next Web https://thenextweb.com/news/python-may-be-easy-but-its-a-mess