Python, Machine Learning, and Language Wars. A Highly Subjective Point of View
And there is nothing wrong with C++. For linear algebra I use the armadillo library and it's really a nice wrapper around LAPACK and BLAS (and fast!). For some reason scientists are somewhat afraid of C++. For some reason you "have to" prototype in an "easier" language. Sure, you can't use C++ as a calculator as opposed to interpreted languages, but I see people being stuck with their computations at the prototyping language and eventually not bringing it to a faster platform.<p>Point being: C++ is not hard for scientific calculations.