Python is my bread-and-butter, and I love it. Even though I’ve got some points of criticism against the language, I strongly recommend it for anybody starting out in data science. More experienced people in the field tend to be Python-evangelists anyway. However, this doesn’t mean that you can’t challenge the limits in your field from time to time, for example by exploring a different programming paradigm or a new language. TypeScript: JavaScript, but type-safe About a decade ago, software engineers at Microsoft noticed that JavaScript wasn’t meeting all their needs anymore. On the one hand, the language was evolving rapidly and adding extremely interesting…
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