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Python is the Visual Basic of 2022. Easy to understand, easy to learn and very forgiving. Much nicer than the main alternative (Javascript).

Unskilled developers can be very productive very quickly. Skilled developers can write some really beautiful code with it.

Has issues with the ecosystem - it's a headache with M1 and far too many Python projects are just broken. The latter is because it's used by scientists / students so is more a function of the community than the language.

I use it as a scripting language, which it excels in as long as you don't have many dependencies.

Go: fast and cgo is really powerful. The language itself is a little verbose for my tastes though - it makes the simple verbose. The package management story is weird (import the source code from github). Better than having the dependency hell of npm or Python though.