Really glad to see someone asking this question. After building a fairly significant AI tool using Python tools, I really wish AI/ML tools would all be rewritten to use an actually performant language - say, Rust - without transitive dependency hell on all the package versions.
The vast majority of Python's AI/ML ecosystem is already written in C/C++ and uses interop glue to call it from Python. But agreed on the transitive dependencies, it's a nightmare
