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It's real-world Python. Why do you think stuff like SciPy are so popular?

Surely not because they are written in real world Python.

Rather real world Fortran, C and C++ with Python glue code.

Just like Tcl, Ruby or whatever scripting language with the same glue code would get out of it.

So real-world Python is:

Two languages to learn. Two languages to support. Two development environments. Two build tools. Two CI/CD pipelines. Two testing infrastructure. Two sets of code and security reviews.

Double the complexity and for what exactly ?

Except when all developers already know C, which is really what you want, seeing how no one ever rises above their level of C proficiency in any other imperative language.

Given the CVE database, all hope is lost if those programmers can never rise about their level of C profency.

Hmm? I'm not saying all C programmers are good, or even that people should prefer C for production code. I'm claiming that if you're bad at C programming, you're not going to be not-bad at programming some other "higher" imperative language.

No C programmer has ever been good. It demands an inhuman level of perfection, or formal methods that boil down to a theorem proving language with C window dressing (the mostly-proprietary stuff Rust competes with).

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