You do realise the Python libraries which work in this space are written in C, right?
Java wasn’t just too verbose, it had bad IDEs and build systems.
If you want to go back, might I suggest Kotlin or C#?
I love Maven. I cannot think of another tool of that age that has afed as gracefully.
Java IDEs are really among the best but I imagine C# in Visual Studio or Smalltalk might really be better.
That these are someone’s problems with Java… is pretty wild. But we all have our own experiences.
So it gives me no pleasure to say this, but one would have to be a complete fool to believe Python wasn't absolutely instrumental in the AI revolution. I'd go as far as to say Python is the reason data science is not just more software engineering. NumPy/Pandas/SciPy/TF/Torch/etc core could be written in $SPACE_ALIEN_WAY_BETTER_3000 for all it matters. If they were not built for Python ingestion, they wouldn't have been used by most of the world.
There is some special sauce in Python that clicks with people. Something in the looseness and metaphorical play between the joints, I think. Pretending otherwise is that willful ignorance some software folks have when their toy is no longer the shiniest.
(Also, sure Maven sucked, but saying Java had bad IDEs? IntelliJ or death! Or, you know, death until something better comes along)
The libraries you mentioned are written in c.
Id go so far that everything bad about the current state of AI, including its lack of security features is exactly because Python “developers” wrote it.
To each their own I guess..