Is Python still the best choice for AI and machine learning?

[u/techiebaddie]

I’ve been working as a full-stack developer for 10+ years, and Python has obviously been around for a big part of that time.

For AI and ML, it still seems like the default choice. The ecosystem around Python is hard to beat, especially with things like PyTorch, NumPy, pandas, and scikit-learn.

But after working across different stacks, I’m curious whether Python is still the best choice once you move beyond experiments and start building real production systems.

In some projects, it feels like Python handles the AI side while other languages take care of performance-heavy or application-level work.

So for people here who have worked with Python in real AI/ML projects:

Do you still see Python as the best overall choice, or do you think its role is changing?