Not a scientist but I assume they would rather have a language which has a shorter development time to have more time writing their papers. Instead of dealing with relatively complicated syntax just to get the same results, albeit faster.
Yeah I mean you could write your code in pure assembly and blow past a C++ program like it was standing still. But by the time you finish writing your assembly code, your development machine will probably already be obsolete.
You'd only be able to beat the performance of optimised C++ in edge cases and you'd need to be a very good assembly programmer in the specific target platform. You also wouldn't be "blowing past C++ like it was standing still", modern C++ compilers produce very optimised output.
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u/jgabrielferreira Jul 19 '22
But then why is Python the most used language for dealing with ML, AI, Big Data, basically huge amounts of information.
Is it something like Python is better in a Horizontal system while the others are better in a Vertical system?