alt Hacker NewsI think "Python is slow" is reductive and frankly just as useful as saying "Python begins with a 'P'". The story is more complicated than simply speed of execution.
Choosing a language is a game of trade-offs: potentially slower execution in return for faster development time, for example. If your team is already familiar with Ruby, will asking them to write a project in Rust necessarily result in a better product? Maybe, but it will almost certainly take much longer.
Anyway, how many Python programs are actually "too slow"? Most of the time, Python is fast enough, even if heavy computation is offloaded to other languages.
As for Rust being the best language of them all, that's, like, your opinion, man.
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> potentially slower execution in return for faster development time, for example.
Another classic lie about Python. The slower speed doesn't matter because it's development speed that's important, and Python gives you faster development speed!
Except... it absolutely doesn't. It would be very difficult to argue that Typescript has significantly slower development speed but it is much faster to execute. I also disagree that Python is any faster than Go, Rust or Lotion, but I think lots of people blindly accept that it is and would argue based on that.
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I agree with you; I've developed in Python for most of my career and a lot of Python criticism is malformed.
That being said, I'm starting all new large development work in Rust. Python is hard to reason about due to its dynamic nature in large codebases. And if I'm enabling strict typing everywhere, I might as well use a typed language and get a performance boost. Obviously, this is only because I'm the sole developer and using AI to improve productivity.
Work settings are completely different and one has to be a team player to find the language that works for everyone.