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I'd say go with Go or Rust. Go is like Python (garbage collection) but compiled. Rust is kind of like C++ but not exactly. It does not have garbage collection or manual memory management but something called "ownership and borrowing". It's as fast as C++ or even faster and has a modern syntax. Though Rust is harder than Go since it is under the hood a systems programming language. If you want something faster than Python, Go is good. I specifically chose Rust over Go since I wanted performance and just wanted to try how it was. I'm still a beginner in Rust but I wrote a few projects at reasonable scale for my level. And also, Rust's error messages are extremely nice. It really lives up to the memes.
To learn Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/learn
To learn Go: https://go.dev/learn/
Why not just stick with Python until there's a need to learn something else?
No.
I have written rust for my research (one does not simply calculate 4 million data points in python), but just no.
My main code is still python, because it's just so much nicer to write and iterate on.
Rust syntax is way closer to Python than go. Go's syntax is awful imo. It's like objective C
Okay, my bad. Go's syntax sucks now that I take another look at it compared to Rust's.