What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about Python

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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12 Jul 2025

Our readingPython is ugly: full of superfluous instructions kept since 1987 for legacy reasons, and its __init__ offends the sensibilities to the core.

Their wordsPython, to me, I hope I don't offend people too much. I've said this before, it's ugly. And it's ugly in its space, because it's full of superfluous instructions that are necessary for legacy reasons of when Guido made Python back in '87 that are still here in 2025.

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