Tech Tales: Python: The Best Way to Waste 40 Hours of Your Life Writing Apps No One Will Use
**Python: The Easiest, Dumbest Way to Write a Whole Lot of Nothing, But You Can Hack With It If You’re Deranged** So, here’s the thing—I’ve been coding in Python for 40 hours. That’s **40 hours**, man. I’ve had bad relationships that didn’t even last that long. After those 40 hours, I’ve come to a conclusion: **Python is by far the dumbest smart language ever invented**. It’s like a pair of sweatpants. Yeah, sure, it’s comfortable. You throw them on, feel nice and relaxed. But the thing about sweatpants is, you’re not exactly changing the world in them. You’re not showing up to a board meeting in sweatpants, ready to give the quarterly report, right? “Oh yeah, I’ve got my PowerPoint and my fuzzy slippers on. Let’s talk numbers, gentlemen.” Python is **easy**, sure. So easy, it makes you feel like a genius when all you’re really doing is writing some code that counts how many times you blink. I mean, I’ve written apps in Python faster than I could microwave a frozen burrito. Need a prog...