> I know I am better at Python personally and am going to keep using it until the speed penalty matters to my project,

I hate Python (app distribution is painful), but will still reach for it before I reach for Go. Rust doesn't even enter the equation.

I would not have even needed to reach for Go in about half my programs if Python had mandatory typing and single-file no-dep distribution.

> and then maybe I’ll let an AI rewrite the whole thing in a faster language.

Even then, my reasons for discarding Python when I do discard it is almost never "performance", it's because the problem space requires mandatory typing for complex data types, or concurrency, or easy distribution.

Of course, this requires me to figure out quite early ion a project that those things would be needed.