I'm a python hater. Yes it is easy, but in exactly the wrong way. Easy for simple code for middle schoolers. For grownups with large codebases to develop and maintain, it's not optimal.

Of course I hate the whitespace trickery. I hate the auto formatting that sometimes doesn't work. Those are fairly minor.

What I really, really hate is the lack of static typechecking. You often have to read lengthy swathes of code to understand how functions are actually used. The conventions in the community are terrible. I have used respected libraries where functions are designed to return a variety of types, just because, so you need to dynamically typecheck your results. Gawd.

And just as bad the fact it is impossible to encapsulate code. This underscore nonsense, don't even mention it. Sheesh. I have found that in real life, internals bleed out over the code base making code more fragile over time and harder to refactor. It has all these open source scientific libraries because professional programmers were working on other things, and that is truly unfortunate.

The lack of seriousness is demonstrated by the fact that it's frozen in time in terms of runtime data structures because cpython knows and relies on those internals. Nutso.

And then the GIL!! What the ?@.