Comments by "Cees Timmerman" (@CTimmerman) on "Stefan Mischook" channel.

  1. PyLint is way too anal for me by default, so i use this in my Visual Studio Code settings: "python.linting.pylintArgs": [ "--errors-only" ],
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  2. I think in terms of execution speed, Cython > ShedSkin > PyPy > Stackless > CPython. Cython is slower to read and write, though, because it's Python with type annotations.
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  3. PHP is a mess, and only used because it was so popular. Django and Flask are two popular Python web frameworks, but i've seen a recent benchmark where Falcon topped both.
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  4. Python is more easy to read because it doesn't cater to every style, imo. If you were a big Lisp or Perl fan Ruby would probably be more attractive, but any redundant syntax can be added to Python using the # prefix.
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  5. You can still use braces in Python, just put a # before them, and indenting is what you should do anyway. I was recently forced to read badly indented PHP and that was only the most easy to fix problem of those code bases (by different and unrelated teams from across the world).
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  6. ShedSkin and Stackless can compile Python to C.
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  7. Dev time is more expensive than a bigger (virtual) machine, and the Falcon framework in Python is pretty fast. Possibly more so when using Cython, PyPy, or ShedSkin instead of CPython, even if the later uses multiprocessing. Python, like martial arts, prefers efficient algorithms over brute force, leaving the latter to compiled libraries written in Cython or other things that compile to C.
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