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by Tade0 44 days ago
> You wouldn't go back the other way because it's very rare to go to all that extra effort writing in a more efficient language only to realise that the slower performance of Python would've been adequate after all.

It's UIs which are typically rewritten in more "fun" languages - occasionally because it becomes too much of a maintenance burden when all one wants to do is move around some form controls.