I also consider the field of languages, but I’ve worked at places where it’s just Python or bust because the “senior” engineers only knew Python and were intimi

I also consider the field of languages, but I’ve worked at places where it’s just Python or bust because the “senior” engineers only knew Python and were intimidated at the prospect of learning other languages. I think they had a C++ class in college and thought that all other languages must be similarly complicated. “Pointer” is a curse word in some circles. These projects did not go well because they were computationally intensive and “rewrite the slow parts in C/pandas/multiprocessing/etc” predictably doesn’t work (spend more time marshaling data than you save from C/parallelism).