Originally posted by Classical
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I won't argue with the post you linked, because I think it's a matter of tastes and opinions, and so is productivity to some extent.
That said, you're missing the point about Python's speed.
CPython is slow. Mainly because it doesn't have any integrated JIT compilation capabilities.
This should change in the next years, but at the moment nobody disputes that.
However, when you're doing computationally intensive stuff you're not using it.
All scientific tools in Python are essentially wrappers around C/C++ code.
This way users can have strong performance in a beginner friendly ecosystem.
So, no, Python is not burning Earth...
(and in a way it is already not being used for the tasks you don't want it used for)
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