I disagree. I think that the use of Python in ROS is the best of both worlds. ROS makes it easy to do sane-ish IPC even for folks new to programming and enables

I disagree. I think that the use of Python in ROS is the best of both worlds. ROS makes it easy to do sane-ish IPC even for folks new to programming and enables them to offload heavy numerical processing or real time tasks out to C++ or even other boards on your robot. Python sits by handling state machines (decision making) and similar logic. It’s also great in experimental code that folks want to change often (opencv prototyping). I don’t like the lack of a type system and have run into easily preventable bugs with python but in my case the trade off with developer productivity was worth it.