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Do you think it does? CS is a field with many wild ideas and I don’t think python is that far into the weeds. Definitely not around 2018 when this was written. A lot of it’s big problems are 90s-scripting-language problems.

It's very easy to use day to day, much easier to grok than C pointers for sure, despite being a bit more limited (in a good way). I remember half the CS 101 class dropping the week pointers were introduced. If it's wrong, I don't wanna be right, as they say.

As another comment notes, isn’t this how every popular language except Go, C and C++ functions?

> if Python does something that is so different from all other languages maybe that’s a complaint in itself

No, it's just a reason not to use Python if you have trouble understanding how it works. That's true of any tool.