Yeah it’s counter-intuitive, and it’s because it does not make much sense.
Slowness is one thing, but the tooling is also clearly subpar compared to languages of the same popularity, the dynamic typing makes things difficult to maintain, the 2.7 vs 3 shit show etc. etc.
The very fact that many smart people have been saying for years that Python is a fairly bad tool for data analysis should at least raise some people’s eyebrows. But no, the entire field of data science has decided that it knows better…
Slowness is one thing, but the tooling is also clearly subpar compared to languages of the same popularity, the dynamic typing makes things difficult to maintain, the 2.7 vs 3 shit show etc. etc.
The very fact that many smart people have been saying for years that Python is a fairly bad tool for data analysis should at least raise some people’s eyebrows. But no, the entire field of data science has decided that it knows better…
Good for them.