Don't large corporations switch to a statically typed languages when their code base grows? (FB tried Hack, Google still uses Java(Ads)/C++, Netflix using Java) Personally I felt the same when dealing with large code base. Does this apply to anyone else too out here? I'm really curious to know how much of the main revenue generating and critical code are in a statically typed language.
That being said, I love python and its the goto language when it comes to shell scripting replacement/quick internal web applications/dev ops stuff etc.
Yeah they do. Python is a godsend for small quick iterative development, but it doesn't scale well to a team of hundreds of people with a bajillion lines of code. Testing in Python is very nice (in part due to its dynamic nature, the thing that can cause bugs in larger systems) so if you have proper coverage and a good test suite (which everyone does... Right? :P) its not too bad.
Type hints are also definitely going to help this.
That being said, I love python and its the goto language when it comes to shell scripting replacement/quick internal web applications/dev ops stuff etc.