[drb91]

> If the question is "why choose Python" or "why choose JavaScript", then I think you're missing the point. Python is simple and beautiful and highly productive to work in.

Well, it depends on the problem! If you’re working with a lot of data structures, or with bytes and serialization, compiled system languages with static typing are going to be productivity boosts over python. Languages aren’t everything, but there are definitely poor language/problem space fits.

[sametmax]

> If you’re working with a lot of data structures, or with bytes and serialization, compiled system languages with static typing are going to be productivity boosts over python.

Python has fantastic, expressive and productive libraries for those kind of problems. Unless you have some performance issue, I can't see how you are going to be faster than that.

[drb91]

Python does address those needs with librares. In other languages it’s not necessary because they fit the mold out of the box