[v21]

> Typically, the selection of a programming language is predetermined in brownfield projects, leaving little room for choosing the "ideal" programming language for migration unless it is absolutely necessary (go can be a suitable option for migrations).

Yep - or it's the standard for some tasks & the important thing is being able to use the ecosystem of external packages that everyone else uses. In this case, the author is working on AI & computer vision, for which everyone else uses Python. Python could be a much worse language than it is and using Python would still be the right choice in this scenario.

[mgaunard]

In computer vision, you use Python for prototyping and research. It of course gets rewritten if it's to be actually used, think for example of the guidance system in a car, plane, or weapon.

It's pretty much the same for AI, except that there is an increasing trend in AI of it being used by people that do not have the skills to do the productionization.

[kobzol]

I agree that in most cases it should be rewritten for production, but in my experience that quite often doesn't happen, and AI stays in Python even for production usages.