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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 02:05 this Sunday (GMT):
> On 13 Dec 2025 11:55:35 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
>
>> Everything else is just a lot of lies. They pretend it's not strongly
>> typed, but in the real world you will only encounter a lot of issue if
>> you believe that.
>
> Think about why both JavaScript and PHP need a “===” operator, while 
> Python does not.
>
> It’s because Python is strongly typed.

I thought it was because JS was too liberal with type-casting to make
things true, and the JS devs didn't want to break compatibility.

>> ... there are a lot of libraries helping developers.
>
> Other languages have done that before. Why do you think Python has been 
> able to leapfrog every prior language in this regard? Perl had a lot of 
> libraries to its name (still does), and yet that no longer seems to be a 
> good enough reason to continue using Perl, simply because Python now does 
> it better.
>
> It’s because Python has such a strong core language on which to build 
> extensions. The libraries tend to make heavy use of this.


It is quite nice, yeah.
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