It is 30+ years old with all the baggage you would expect. It’s very much a product of its time.
It’s not like that cannot be changed. Look at PHP, which managed to evolve brilliantly over the last decade and gets tons of things right now.
Python 3(000) was an opportunity to fix all the things, so in a sense, the modern Python is less than 20 years old.
It’s not like that cannot be changed. Look at PHP, which managed to evolve brilliantly over the last decade and gets tons of things right now.