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by nick_dm 4384 days ago
Python is currently making inroads in finance, both Bank of America and JP Morgan have large projects involving it. I've worked on one of them, and like you I'm unusure if it's a good long-term plan, though I don't have experience with large codebases in other languages. Performance is an issue and navigating a large Python codebase is tricky. One thing that doesn't help is that many of the developers come from Java/C#/C++ and pick up Python quickly but with "unpythonic" habits, the code ends up being almost as verbose as Java but with none of the type safety.