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Today, after some large projects, I miss strong typing but not enough to change everything. You need more tests, but I can live with it.
We integrated with a large retailer in a complex project with only two developers and I think Python was the reason to it. Too many open source things already done and fast iterations.
For other applications Python is way too slow... although PyPy helps a lot.
As for things like static typing and maintainability, it's certainly possible to do with Python. You also have the power to write horrible unmaintainable code. Unit testing tends to be much more more important in Python. And you can add static typing to Python these days, via external tooling.
Some ideas and tools for building long-term maintainable Python, originally written as guide for Java developers: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/10/30/python-for-java-deve...
This is the key piece of information based on which I will give you my advice. If you know Python and use it already, then go build it in Python.
If you do grow to that level of scale, python will be the least of your worries. You will figure it out then. Just build in python and release the damn kraken.
"startup aiming to build a sustainable SaaS " This is the key piece of information based on which I will give you my advice. If you know Python and use it already, then go build it in Python. If you do grow to that level of scale, python will be the least of your worries. You will figure it out then. Just build in python and release the damn kraken.
> Python as the main language in a potentially large-scale project This is the flaw in your thinking, the word Potentially . Good engineering means you worry about actual problems and not potential problems (within reason ofc). Your actual problem is that you haven't written the web application, so you do that first. For doing that, Python is an excellent choice. "But what about web-scale?" Well, chances are your pro…
But like others have said, it's tempting and typical for developers to obsess about details that at worse will be a good problem to have (... like having to super scale). Worth making sure you're not one of them.