“Yes, Python is Slow, and I Don’t Care”

Question

What do you think about this?
https://hackernoon.com/yes-JUMP_LINK__&&__python__&&__JUMP_LINK-is-slow-and-i-dont-care-13763980b5a1

Answer 1

you use python when you want to get the program developed fast, not for running the program fast. for most tasks, the slow speed is acceptable.

so basically he's right

but

there are languages that run faster with similar development times. the reason python wins out in the end is due to the massive library ecosystem it has. you're not going to get cutting edge machine learning in perl, for example. as much as I like python, I think in the long term it's bound to be replaced with a faster alternative.

Answer 2

https://www.sololearn.com/Discuss/431568/?ref=app

So I think wrong that Python is better and faster than PHP? 😐

Answer 3

When people say python is slow it's usually 2 cases, the first being that they are using python for stuff that should have been better with C or C++ and those who jumped on the bandwagon to blow up the proportion on how unnecessarily important speed is. Speed is probably the only thing python does poorly at imo and that's okay given how readable the code is.