Why Python is so popular | Chris Lattner and Lex Fridman

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Chris Lattner is a legendary software and hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, SiFive, and Modular AI, including the development of Swift, LLVM, Clang, MLIR, CIRCT, TPUs, and Mojo.

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[LexClips]

Guest bio: Chris Lattner is a legendary software and hardware engineer, leading projects at Apple, Tesla, Google, SiFive, and Modular AI, including the development of Swift, LLVM, Clang, MLIR, CIRCT, TPUs, and Mojo.

[letsburn]

Its easy and it makes sense. I went from no being able to code to being able to scrape APIs and do machine learning within 4 months. I'm not especially smart. Also, once you start using Numba and vectorised code, its Actually fast enough.

[Ramtn]

I'm a technical artist, I wanna automate the boring stuff, I love python for that!

[thesoftwareman]

Seems to be a huge push for newbies to learn Python and JavaScript. Here's a comparison:

For uni I would say Python.
Bootcamps or self study: JavaScript.

Why?

One needs to decide whether their priority:
For learning DS&A, would say Python gives better foundation. Less verbose so more efficient, as well.
For shipping web apps, JavaScript is the winner.

[TakoyakiStore]

When I was in college the programming professor taught C++ because apparently if you could learn that you could understand python & java easier. That was back in 2016 so idk how applicable that is now.

[neonmidnight]

Also because it is a default choice in most university curriculums alongside C++ and Java.

[emwave]

Where is the chart that you showed in the thumbnail?

[BlastinRope]

python is for noobs real programmers use oddly shaped sticks

[ddgyt]

LOL, My first languages were Basic, FORTRAN and Pascal.

[SirLightHouse-ng]

Maybe you should also emphasize that Python is slow as a MOFO.

C++ is literally 100 times faster than Python.

[Sanchuniathon]

Java isn't popular. It's well used, but isn't popular because people like it, it's "popular" because people are forced to used it.

[finallyfedupwithpeople]

Python is for programmers that don't know (or need to know) how HW works.

[ianmarteens]

Because neurons are scarse. Python is an unmitigated disaster.

[colinreese]

I still don't FUCKING understand what python is?

[alandala]

Seeing people describing python as easy to learn, it makes me feel a lot worse about myself.