Comments by "iorekby" (@iorekby) on "What programming language to learn | Chris Lattner and Lex Fridman" video.

Environmentally too. It's a fad diet popular among "too busy to learn how to cook" bros. Lex will move off of it over time I'm sure once he's seen it for what it is.
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@socrates_the_great6209 That's faulty reasoning though. Python won't teach you DS/ML/AI. You need a strong math/stats background to learn that. Python is just well supported, but implying learning Python will teach people DS/ML/AI is like saying just because you can read English you will be able to understand and learn everything in every Physics text book published in English.
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@DomUnseen I do get what you are saying, and mostly agree but I will put a caveat in of moving from a 4th gen language back to say a 3rd or 2nd gen language is a lot more of a head melt than going from a 3rd Gen language to a 4th, which will be easier.
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Or JavaScript. I agree with this 100%. They have been the big 3 in the job market in Europe for over 15 years and still are. There's a perception the likes of Python is taking over, but in reality that is perpetuated by snakeoil Youtube channels and crappy bootcamps (because Python is relatively easy to teach) instead of a strong demand for lots of Python devs. Don't get me wrong, there are Python jobs for sure, but it's nowhere near to knocking Java/JS/C# off the tree top. Those languages are tried and tested by enterprises, and are so pervasive in corporate software they have created a strong inertia that the likes of Python and Golang aren't going to quickly change.
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