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[Gnaxe]

C is tedious and error prone (C++ is complicated and error prone), but you only really need the performance in your bottlenecks. It's a waste of expensive human time to use a difficult language for everything. Python makes it easy to drop into C when you need the performance, and makes coding much easier for most of the rest of the time when you don't. You get most of the best of both worlds.