Coming at it from the other side (Python has put food on my table for ~7 years now), it's not the "short scripts" that make Python great to develop in, it's tha

Coming at it from the other side (Python has put food on my table for ~7 years now), it's not the "short scripts" that make Python great to develop in, it's that it can handle the growth of your app. Writing scientific/academic code and writing business application code is somewhat different, but the speed at which you can develop and maintain Python code is very high, as is the volume of aid available should you run into trouble. I don't think there's a language out there that's both easy to initially pick up and as well supported by its community as Python. The speed at which you can develop application code is astounding, once you get the hang of it and the noise out of the way (CI/CD, code coverage, unit and integration testing, a general familiarity with the major frameworks, etc.), and the maintenance is... tolerable.