I've been programming C++ and assembly for 23 years. Few years ago I became a huge fan of Python. In my opinion Python is amazingly well suited for rapid first revision and can then be swapped out for C++ / asm.
Type hints made large python codebase switch from "Any change will blow up to my face" to "I can touch it carefully with protection gloves".
Through, it is still pretty easy to fool mypy and very far of the compile time guarantees that provide most static typed AOT compiled language.
And unfortunately, it also does not bring any advantage in term of performance.
At that point it makes more sense to use a statically typed language.
Much of code's performance isn't really reflected on to the scalability since mostly a tiny part of code is really ran a lot of time, and the other parts are just glues or management stuff or rarely used(not used in scale) features.