Doesn't it read as pathetic that in the age of AI, one scripting language is the center of the world? How can stuff that's so smart be captive to stuff that's so generic?
I don't think it's 'pathetic' at all; it's actually a massive engineering win. Python’s dominance in 2026 isn't about the language's raw speed, but its role as the ultimate 'glue logic.' We use Python for its expressive simplicity at the top level, while all the heavy lifting happens in C++, Rust, or CUDA under the hood.
In the age of AI, the bottleneck isn't execution time—it's iteration time. If a 'generic' scripting language allows a researcher to test ten hypotheses in the time it takes to debug one memory leak in a lower-level language, then that simplicity is exactly why it's the center of the world.
Probably, but for what it's worth, I'm moving more and more of my own AI work to Java. It turns out that SpringAI is a great library for working with LLM's and related tech. And I was already using Jason for logic programming.
That’s an interesting shift. SpringAI has definitely made the Java ecosystem much more viable for LLM integration lately. I’m curious, though—how are you finding the developer experience compared to the Python ecosystem? While Java offers great type safety and performance for enterprise scale, do you feel that the 'Jason' integration for logic programming compensates for the vast research-oriented library support that Python still holds in 2026?
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