alt Hacker News100% or even 200% seems nice, but at least at the time when I compared with JavaScript it was 4200% faster than would have been needed. Let's not even mention go.
At least for now it seems that Python can still only be used to call some Pascal or cuda bindings if one needs performance
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v3ss0n • 08/01/2025
PyPy is average 4x faster yet 95% of python community ignored. Its already feature parity to 3.12 and most of the pypi libs works.
Back in the 2000's I was on a startup whose main language was Tcl, and we would write C extensions for any performance critical command.
The experience lead me to avoid any language without JIT or AOT, unless forced upon me.
Hence why I have used Python since version 1.6 only for OS scripting tasks.