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Just wait until this guy has to use something like SQL or Spark. They will always occupy a niche for exactly these reasons. Turns out it's a pretty big niche though. So big in fact, that maybe we shouldn't call it a niche.

Python's ecosystem is built on this premise. Let some other language (C) do the fast stuff and leverage that for your applications. It's not a niche language, even though you don't have direct control over things like memory management and GC.

Perhaps the commenter's role of real time graphics programming is actually the niche.




re python and scripting, afaik used to be known as "glue languages". not sure how true it is anymore.




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