alt Hacker News> language slow
> looks inside
> the reference implementation of language is slow
Despite its content, this blogpost also pushes this exact "language slow" thinking in its preamble. I don't think nearly enough people read past introductions for that to be a responsible choice or a good idea.
The only thing worse than this is when Python specifically is outright taught (!) as an "interpeted language", as if an implementation-detail like that was somehow a language property. So grating.
While I sympathize (and have said similar in the past), language design can (and in Python's case certainly does) hinder optimization quite a bit. The techniques that are purely "use a better implementation" get you not much further than PyPy. Further benefits come from cross-compilation that requires restricting access to language features (and a system that can statically be convinced that those features weren't used!), or indeed straight up using code written in a different language through an FFI.
But yes, the very terminology "interpreted language" was designed for a different era and is somewhere between misleading and incomprehensible in context. (Not unlike "pass by value".)