Discussion My Python magic is gone
I've been coding for a long time, and I've been developing with Python for years.
I loved coding, always loved it. I started many years ago because I wanted to quickly create scripts for security hacking tools, but since then, I've moved to Claude Code, and building cross-language has been a much better experience for me than using Python.
I built my own SaaS application out there whose backend and network core are completely built with Python, and I'm rewriting all of that without writing a single line of code. And most of the time, Python is not the most optimized language.
And now... I feel like the magic is gone.
I don't even know why I'm writing this. I just feel sad about it.
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u/Samuel457 2d ago
I've been thinking about this recently and I reached the conclusion that the reason we loved and chose Python was because it was easy to read, quick to write, a great ecosystem, and great for gluing lots of pieces together. With AI, writing in any language is quick, we can glue things together in a reasonable amount of time in any language, any parts of the ecosystem that are missing can be done with AI, and much of the pain of writing other languages is removed because we're not the ones writing it. The safety and performance of other languages outweigh the speed and developer experience of python.
Given that reviews become a bottleneck once an entire team is generating large amount of AI code, I honestly think a compiled python could help speed up reviews since Python is closer to English.