[Danmctree]

The frustrating thing is that the math and AI support in the python ecosystem is arguably the best. These happen to also be topics where performance is critical and where you want things to be tight.

c++ has great support too but often isn't usable in communities involving researchers and juniors because it's too hard for them. Startup costs are also much higher.

Ans so you're often stuck with python.

We desperately need good math/AI support in faster languages than python but which are easier than c++. c#? Java?

[pjmlp]

It is kind of ironic that this is now the Zeitgeist, while in the 1990's my university used to teach C++ to first year students, and I learned it as high school student with Turbo C++ 1.0 for MS-DOS, about a year after it was made commercially available, later acquiring Turbo C++ 1.5 for Windows 3.1 with student discount.