I'm in the exact same camp. I call it "two-language programming". Python+C beats the heck out of any single systems language, especially C++. And thanks to the

I'm in the exact same camp. I call it "two-language programming". Python+C beats the heck out of any single systems language, especially C++. And thanks to the amazing bloated complexity of the C++ language, the cognitive overhead of Python and C combined is way less than C++ (unless you stick to a tiny subset of C++ in which case you're just doing C-only, with slightly cleaner syntax). I'm still deciding on the best approach for the interface between Python and C. I don't like ctypes/cython etc because they require you to modify python code. I'd much rather create CPython extension but there is too much boilerplate. I'm looking into swig.