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> People use Python for its ease and speed of development, and extensive ecosystem.

Of these, I think only the ecosystem stands out anymore. For work purposes I wouldn't be able to move away from Python anytime soon, but if I could pick any language for new code it wouldn't be Python. If I had to pick the closest competitor, Julia seems like a great Python-like language in terms of speed and ease of development with much better typing and performance, but with a less extensive ecosystem. Nim might also fit that bill. If ecosystem was important, Go probably fills a similar space without being quite as steep of a learning curve as some of the other languages.