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Python (with Qt, pyside) is still great for desktop GUI applications. My current project is all LLM generated (but mostly me-verified) Rust, wrapped in a thin Python application for the GUI, TUI, CLI, and web interfaces. There's also a Kotlin wrapper for running it on Android.

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Yeah, Python is nice to work with in many contexts for sure. I mostly meant that I don’t personally use it as much anymore, since Go can do everything I need, and faster.

Plus the JS/Python dependency ecosystem is tiring. Yeah, I know there’s uv now, but even then I don’t see much reason to suffer through that when opting for an actually type-safe language costs me almost nothing.

Dynamic languages won’t go anywhere, but Go/Rust will eat up a pretty big chunk of the pie.

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