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Is there any use in learning an "easy" programming language?
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this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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'Scuse me, hwat?
Try uninstalling Python from Ubuntu and see what happens. (Do NOT actually try this.)
I need to test this with multiple distributions in a virtual machine, out of curiosity. Then test executing common tasks. Could be an idea for a blog post or YouTube video...
Did you not know that several package managers like DNF/yum are written in python? There's a ton of tools like that for each os and a lot of the time Python is the tool of choice.
Dnf5 is written in C++
My point is that I wouldn't call it a backbone. There are always alternatives in different languages, and python version is oft not the default or main one. C(++) is the backbone of Linux.
Except Fedora I think, iirc they use python packages often.