As someone who works on a decently complex project (essentially a graph execution engine for multi-node, data-parallel+model-parallel deep learning models), wri

As someone who works on a decently complex project (essentially a graph execution engine for multi-node, data-parallel+model-parallel deep learning models), writing it in python is not really ideal. Python is great for the end user, but I’d be far more efficient if the code base was in C++ with some Python bindings. I think my conclusion after about 10 years of programming is this: the larger and more complicated a project is, the more I as a maintainer/implementer benefit from constraints in the language itself (where by constraints I mean things like compiler type checking, or Rusts borrow checker, even if I haven’t had a reason to use Rust yet). The more work the compiler/interpreter does, the less I have to explicitly keep in my head.