A lot comes down to familiarity, to be fair. I’m not a SWE by trade, I’m an SRE / DBRE. I can read code in just about any language, but the only one I consider

A lot comes down to familiarity, to be fair. I’m not a SWE by trade, I’m an SRE / DBRE. I can read code in just about any language, but the only one I consider myself really good in is Python. I could and should learn another (Rust seems very appealing, yes), but at the same time, I find joy in getting Python to be faster than people expect. C being leaned on is cheating a bit, of course, but even within pure Python, there are plenty of ways to gain speedups that aren’t often considered.