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Agree with syntax and slow, the others not so much.

But my bigger reason for avoiding Python when I can is I just think the days of dynamic languages are behind us. Which is to say, we are past the tipping point where the ergonomics of adding typing are less costly than the benefits, and that applies even for short scripting use cases (in part because so many short scripts grow their way into real production code that needs to be maintained).

I went down the rabbit hole of adding type hints but at the end of the rabbit hole it was a lot of work and the value realised was still only 50% of that from having a real type system. Vast numbers of type errors still not getting caught in my editor, autocompletion stymied at shallow points where the type system gets lost, and as the weight of the project grows the tools like MyPy getting slower and slower as they have to process massive amounts of the dependency tree just to infer the type of the single line you are typing.

These days even for short scripts I am preferring to write them in languages like Groovy which get me all the benefits of Python from the dynamic language point of view but built on a foundation of a real type system which means I have a pathway to grow the code into full static typing using any of the JVM languages if I want / need to. And it also largely solves the problem with performance.