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To understand the hate, you have to realise that no one likes being forced into using a particular technology. Especially one that is more of a lowest common denominator and ignores much of the progress in programming language research over the last 40-50 years (e.g. expressive static type systems, and Python still markets itself as "strongly typed").

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> and Python still markets itself as "strongly typed" What's wrong with that? It is strongly typed (doesn't coerce everything like Javascript) just not statically typed (objects have types but variables don't).

Type means statically typed unless you qualify it with your own nomenclature "dynamic". Please don't hijack the mathematical definition of type.

I go with what helps me get work done. I have a feeling many people are the same. Python lets me be productive in a crazy variety of tasks and mostly gets out of my way when I do so.

In my industry, the companies that have standardised on Python and consequently now have large Python codebases are not very productive environments anymore. Perhaps they were once, for the first few people, in the first few months. It's no surprise that the Python community has now started to try and retrofit types.

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