[busterarm]

You might want to try Ruby for some of those things you reached to Python for. It takes direct inspiration from Perl and does a lot of those things better, IMO.

Nokogiri is hands-down the best tool for dealing with XML that there is.

I have much the same experience with Python and anything significant developed in Python here ends up getting rewritten in Go.

[Sileni]

Not to move the post, but that's part of what makes python so great to me. It reads like pseudocode if written with that goal in mind. Its more like having a conversation with the computer. When I need performance, I now have the algorithm written out in an easy to parse way. Then small parts in golang/C are far faster to write, because I can feel out the whole program.

Im not directly in the software industry though, just writing programs for data analysis in quality and safety programs. I'm sure once you can think directly in something like Go, it'd be faster to write that program first. But it decreases the cognitive load for me.

[busterarm]

No worries -- I actually agree with you. We actually don't do very much scripting at my company in general -- Java, Go and JS (for Lambda) are roughly what we've standardized on.

We have a bunch of Python scripts for operations work and it's rare that performance becomes a major concern (...except in/regarding Ansible). Development isn't my team's primary responsibility so this state of things is fine -- our SysEng team can grok Python pretty well, whereas with other languages I wouldn't say this is true.