Heard a coworker say Python is too easy to be a real programming language

This guy at the sorting center said Python is just for people who can't handle 'real' languages like C++, and I spent the whole shift fuming. Has anyone else run into this gatekeeping nonsense and how do you even respond to it?

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lucas_grant8317d ago

So did this coworker actually give you any specific reason why Python is too easy? Like did he say it's the lack of curly braces or something about memory management? I always find people who talk like that have never actually built anything real in Python.

colesanchez17d ago

The real joke is that "too easy" is actually Python's killer feature. Complex languages like C++ let bugs hide in memory leaks and pointer errors. Python makes you focus on the actual problem not the language itself. Your coworker is basically admitting he wants programming to feel hard so he can feel smarter. Every major tech company runs Python in production at massive scale. If it was truly useless it wouldn't be powering machine learning pipelines and backend services.