>And I don't see why performance is suddenly used as a deal breaker for a language primarily used for scripting and other non-CPU-bound purposes.
People want to use Python for lots of CPU bound processes. A big Python niche is numeric and scientific computing.
You say that it is "primarily used for scripting and other non-CPU-bound purposes", but this is also a consequence of it being slow. If it was faster it would open MORE uses. LUA and C# got the games action. Go gets attention on the networking apps end, etc...
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>And I don't see why performance is suddenly used as a deal breaker for a language primarily used for scripting and other non-CPU-bound purposes.
People want to use Python for lots of CPU bound processes. A big Python niche is numeric and scientific computing.
You say that it is "primarily used for scripting and other non-CPU-bound purposes", but this is also a consequence of it being slow. If it was faster it would open MORE uses. LUA and C# got the games action. Go gets attention on the networking apps end, etc...