Four years ago I wrote a blog on this site explaining why Python is better than C# and, arguably, most other programming languages. To redress the balance, here are 10 reasons why you might want to avoid getting caught up in Python’s oh-so-tempting coils – particularly when building large, long-lived systems.
If this sounds like an attempt to have my cake and eat it, my defense is that I follow in my work what I preach here: I use Python for ad-hoc jobs, at which it is unsurpassed. For larger systems – such as our MV website – I use C#,