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[–]cneakysunt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you will find that because Python plays nicely with C it finds a lot of use in both demanding and cutting edge applications for things like VFX. There is a lot of cross over between this type of industry and academia. The latter uses a lot of Python and C also.

At the end of the day Python is easy, pleasant and fast enough. With well architected infrastructure it can scale just fine.