[lordnacho]

Numpy, Scipy pandas, etc are a way to use scripty syntax to write CPP code.

Under the hood you get the benefits of CPP: stuff is dense in cache, operations are efficient.

But you can write it without a bunch of types, templates and allocators, which confuse people who aren't used to it. Most numeric code doesn't have a load of types anyway, it's just a few operations on some very large matrices.

Add to that the benefit that you can just ask of python's universe of libraries, which is quite large compared to rivals like MATLAB or R. Want to serve your model as a website? Jam it into Flask. Need crypto lib to grab the data? No problem, just pip it and import.