i have heard that python is best for scientific wo...

# science

[iBehnia]

i have heard that python is best for scientific work

[altavir]

I've actually unswered that question in my KotlinConf 2019 talk:

https://youtu.be/LI_5TZ7tnOE▾

But in short Python is a good choice for non-programmers. You can do short scripts relying on existing libraries with Python. But if you are developing something new, Python becomes really painfull.

[iBehnia]

Amazing!

[zaleslaw]

Due to highly effective JVM and rich variety of data engineering tools on scala/java, but java is verbose, scala is hard, kotlin is a well balanced