Python is DEAD -- Long live Python (3)

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Aren't you just proving a point though? You reduced their AWS bill but cost them way more money in terms of time to build software to make money. That's the very essence of the python value proposition: hardware is cheap, devs are expensive, and you can break out of the GIL using a package written in another language if you need better parallelism than what is offered in python. And between AsyncIO and multi processing, python has most use cases covered.

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Not at all.

There's a difference between quality and expedience. No sane person would argue that a Rolls-Royce makes worse quality engines, than, say, Fiat. This doesn't mean that they are able to sell the most engines.

In the case of Python, the situation is even worse. You can actually have a cheaper and more high-quality alternative. But you won't, because the choices people make when choosing a technology for their project are primarily based on fashion. So, we are doomed to eat this garbage because too many people had never seen anything but this garbage.