Thanks for the tool. This is pretty neat.
It’s almost comical to see “why Python” comments after all these years. I would’ve chosen Go to write this, but that’s beside the point.
Yes, Python installation is tricky, dependency management is a mess (even with uv, since it’s not standard tooling; another one will pop up), and performance is atrocious. But even then, some Python libraries have bigger communities than the combined communities of all these “better, faster, more awesome” languages.
Python is here to stay. Newcomers love it because you need to know so little to get started. People don’t care about the little quirks when they begin, and eventually they just live with the warts. That’s fine. LLMs write better Python than Go (my preferred language, or whatever yours is). And if you know anything about the AI research community, it’s C++, C, Python or GTFO.
Going forward, a lot more tools will be written in Python, mostly by people entering the field. On top of that, there’s a huge number of active Python veterans churning out code faster than ever. The network effect keeps on giving.
So whatever language you have in mind, it’s going to be niche compared to Python or JS. I don’t like it either. But if languages and tools were chosen on merit instead of tribalism, we wouldn’t be in this JS clusterfuck on the web.
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