Ease of use and advanced features are not polar opposites. I do a lot of geospatial work and Python bindings for GDAL [1] are godsend. In 10 lines of code, I c

Ease of use and advanced features are not polar opposites. I do a lot of geospatial work and Python bindings for GDAL [1] are godsend. In 10 lines of code, I can read shapes stored in different projections and file formats; load, reproject and merge them into an in-memory SQLite database; do all sorts of complex geospatial operations on them using spatial extensions, and save results to a file. I'd spend half a day writing C++ code that Python abstracts away into very few commands. It's a joy to work with, and I struggle to see any downsides. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDAL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDAL