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> Python intentionally is one of the easiest languages to use.

That was python 2...

Python 3 is "growing up" and losing the simplicity and ease of use for complex hard to understand power-user features... It's the lifecycle of any language - see C++ which is 20 years ahead on the same curve...



Honestly, I don't recall any time at which C++ was intentionally easy to use.


I guess back in 1985, it was the easy to use version of C...

It handles allocating and deallocating memory for you, keeping data and code together, a nicer way to write to the console, and other basic things.

I think you have to look at it with 40-year-ago eyes to see it...


With the right tooling and libraries, C++ could be both powerful and easy. Of course it means marrying a platform usually, of which there are many..


I disagree, I learned Python 3 and found it very very easy, even in a professional setting. If I need to knock out a script to format a CSV file, Python 3 is an easy and fast choice.




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