r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ItsPuspendu • 2d ago

Meme pythonFeelsillegal

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u/Salty-Wrap-1741 1d ago

Yep. Really easy and pleasant to write and read Python. It's been my main language over 10 years.

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u/zabby39103 1d ago edited 1d ago

Okay but the multithreading... what do you do about the multithreading? For IO tasks, standard threads work fine. But for real CPU parallelism, you still have to spawn a whole new Python interpreter per worker! Because Python forces you to use separate processes instead of true threads for CPU work, you can't share memory between them seamlessly.

I'm used to leading edge Java development, and that is stuff that even 10+ year old Java 8 could do. It felt like stepping in a time machine. New Java has virtual threads, which are magic that have basically no overhead and no drawbacks.

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u/listenhere111 1d ago

Multithreading is needed in relatively few applications. If its needed, ya, maybe another language is better, but you can still do it in oython

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u/zabby39103 1d ago

I really have to disagree strongly with that. With hyperthreading (x2 to everything) laptops have a dozen real+virtual cores nowadays at the low end, even phones have 8 typically.

That's just performance on the table, an order of magnitude or so on the table. I hate slow applications. If you want to make something go fast nowadays the answer is multicore. We've only been inching up the single core performance the last decade.

Also, I realize not everyone does server programming or enterprise programming, but it's absolutely mandatory for that.

I appreciate that you answered.

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u/listenhere111 1d ago

Fair. Im legitimately ignorant on the topic, so I'll go with what you say.