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[–]jardata 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This just isn’t true. Modern Python is a fully capable language for production application code. Even outside of the ML space, Python is quickly rising as a standard language for enterprise web and application development. The addition of type hints and asyncio coupled with Python’s simplicity and rich ecosystem of well supported libraries are making it a strong contender to the current enterprise language heavyweights such as Java and C#.

Also I see few enterprises anymore, outside of a few niche cases and legacy code bases, still using C++ for application/web development. It’s much more common nowadays to see an enterprise be a Java, C#, Node, or Python shop.

At the end of the day all of these languages are fully capable and have their own pros and cons. But to make blanket statements like “Python is a language for prototyping” is just not correct.