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.
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.