alt Hacker NewsI wonder why people love to create languages to be embed in applications when there are plenty of languages that are already useful and well known.
So in the end, you have to fight the half-assed small language that was created and have to find a way to connect to some real language to get things done.
Small languages, if they are suitably constrained, offer far more reasoning power and optimisation potential. This is why we need more small languages, not less. Python aims for maximum flexibility and maximum ease of use. This comes with real and serious trade offs. Python programs are very very difficult to reason about, for both people and machines.
A textbook example for you are (proper) regular expressions. This little language guarantees O(n) matching. The Python and Perl communities added backtracking without truly understanding why backtracking was missing in the first place. Now their misnamed "regular expressions" cause security issues for their users.