alt Hacker News> Anyone that thinks Python is "simple", to come back to some of the suggestions on how it is easier than C++, they really should learn the language reference, standard library, and CPython FFI manuals.
Python is more "simple" in the sense that
- it is more forgiving with respect to badly written code,
- it has collected less historical baggage than C++.
Otherwise I agree.
It really isn't less forgiving, it just happens that as a dynamic language, it blows up at runtime instead of failing to compile.
Yeah, we all know how cleaning up Python has worked out, and unfortunately a few ecosystems failed to learn from it as well, e.g. Java 8 => 9, .NET Framework => Core.