Re:Astral to Join OpenAI
by mountainriver on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:56PM
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> it's performant enough for 99% of use cases
My last two companies went all in on python and really regretted it. It's performance and concurrency primitives really hurt as you scale
If I ask an LLM or agentic AI to build something and don't specify what language to use, I'd wager that it'll choose python most of the time. Casual programmers like academics or students who ask ChatGPT to help them write a function to do X are likely to be using Python already.
I'm not a Python evangelist by any means but to suggest that AI is going to kill Python feels like a major stretch to me.
EDIT: when I say that Python can do anything any other language can do, that's with the adage in mind. Python is the second best language for every task.