There was a recent post about top programming languages of 2025. And Python was at the top. We see so much development in the AI space focused on Python projects. Understandably, the ecosystem and AI/ML/CUDA/research ecosystem trends heavily towards Python, but is Python truly serving as the language for this boom? I see some ideas where compiled, "safer", and faster languages with concurrency as a first paradigm along with LLM-assisted programming could make these language better suited for adoption and foundation building for performant AI/ML future. There is just so much Python inertia, it can seem hard to not choose during this time period.

I was wondering what the HN community thinks about this, just musing about how Python is a workhorse language, possibly a junk-drawer language, depends on your perspective.