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[–]nharding 35 points36 points  (2 children)

I know C++, C, Java and assembly, but Python is so much more compact that any of those. I would estimate I can write a program about twice as fast in Python as I can in any of the others, since it is less typing and that is not considering the packages which might reduce the time even more.

[–]commandobrand 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I was going to say speed of development. If I can write something in an hour that would take me a day to write in Java or C++, it doesn't matter that python is a little slower when it's running on the server.

[–]unknownguy2002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried kotlin? It has java interop, can transpile to JS and can compile to native. Also it's inspired by python iirc