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Because it isn’t a statically typed language, is terribly, terribly slow, has horrible production environments and has a lot of quirks?

I don’t understand why anybody would ever develop anything in Python other than “I want to write software but can’t be arsed to follow software design principles”, with all the mess that follows from it.



Congrats on finding the reason: its easier in python


Only in the short term




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