If you know some secret behind building reliable software in a programming language without types, with nulls, and with runtime exceptions, I'm all ears. I admit that a blanket statement "can't build reliable software" is going overboard, but the intention was to be dramatic, not factually correct. You can probably build reliable software in Python if you write everything from scratch, but I wouldn't want to do that to myself. I would rather use a programming language that has a type system, etc, and a better cultured ecosystem.
But I can build reliable software without types as well. Many people can. This isn’t secret stuff that only I can do. There are thousands and thousands of reliable software built on Python, ruby and JavaScript.
OP was needlessly combative. But, if I have to write a program that is correct (i.e. does what I want it do to), I'm going to write it in Rust. Not because you cannot write correct programs in Python. But because it's easier to prove it's correct in Rust.
As a solo dev, I find that I start off in Python, but at a certain project size I find it too unwieldy to manage (i.e. make changes without breaking things) and that's when I implement part or all of the project in Rust.
Yes, exactly. It doesn’t happen that often, but it does.
And folks have forgotten, not sure why, but Python was always billed as a prototyping language in the “olden tymes.” Or even “executable pseudocode.” At those it excels.
