Jonathan Hartleytartley@fosstodon.org
Sep 1, 2026, 7:49 PM@wronglang The candidates who chose Python average 2.6 times the successful progress through the problem in the allotted time than the next best scoring language, Go.
This goes back to what I said about making code simpler and more expressive. They literally make the problem simpler by building abstractions that required them to write less code. Python lends itself to that, and if one is going to take a stand about theoretical correctness, one had to at least understand data points like this.
