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I actually like Python a lot. Although I'm no longer using it professionally, it's my first choice for personal projects.

I'm also an advocate for using the right tool for the job, and in this case, Python may not have been the right tool for this job, but this was only one component in a much larger system. Sometimes you have to be suboptimal locally to be optimal globally.

And it's not like Python couldn't handle it, it was just that it had some design decisions that made things a bit harder than it would have been in some other languages. We got it working pretty well in Python 2, then the Python 3 transition happened, and it was a lot of work to get everything working as it had been, for only a small benefit to our team, but we got it working in 3 as well, and to my knowledge, it's still humming along.




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