Python serves as an established, mature glue language that's relatively easy to learn. But of course even in Python, if some heavy lifting needs to be done, tha

Python serves as an established, mature glue language that's relatively easy to learn. But of course even in Python, if some heavy lifting needs to be done, that happens in C/C++, and precompiled as a native binary object, with a Python layer on top of it for the users.