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nu11ptr ◴[] No.43750542[source]
Personally, this feels like a feature that is too focused on one problem to be a general feature. Python is getting huge. When people ask me if Python is easy and simple to learn I have to say "the basics, yes, but to to learn the whole language... not so much".

I feel like in this sense Go really is interesting by rejecting almost every single feature. Honestly not sure generics were worth it as they add a lot of complexity, and while they are nice, I don't need them very much. The general idea to keep the language at its original focus is the right idea IMO. C++ would be the most extreme case where the language itself barely resembles what it started out as.

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oliwarner ◴[] No.43750807[source]
Python has always been a batteries-included language, so having a go at templated string interpolation —a feature other languages have had for decades— seems like a strange gripe.

It's far more essential than little utilities like textwrap or goliath packages like Python's bundled tkinter implementation.

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1. phreeza ◴[] No.43754791[source]
Batteries included to me also meant a large standard library, not a large language.