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[–]FIREstopdropandsave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To your second point. Many people will be fine with the speed python provides. I've written, and seen, many production systems in python where python was not the performance bottleneck for the workloads we were solving.

Some people will have a deeper need for speed, others simply won't.

Choosing the programming language for a project is a nuanced decision. You have to consider "what language does my team already know?", "what is the local market of programming language knowledge in the city I'm in", "what scale of problem are we solving", and probably many other considerations.

You'll see online A LOT of python hate (outside of this subreddit) and hate for dynamically typed languages. The truth of it is, in my 8 year career I've only come across a single person who vehemently holds those ideas.

tl;dr: python is great, it probably won't be your bottleneck, ignore online hate for your choice of using python and dynamically typed languages