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Python is not the best at anything, but is the second best at almost everything. That's the reason I use it. Everything I need to do, I know I can do it in python, maybe isn't going to be the better or faster it could be, but it will work.
Yeah, Python is fast enough. Being assembly-fast is just not that important for a lot of things.
This. As a chemist I just need to do rather simple calculations, plots and sometimes use a package or two. My total yearly compute time is like 1 hour in python. Spending 5 years learning c, assembly, data science and what not just to reduce that to 1 minute is not really worth it.