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Discussion on: Peregrine Rewrite - The python-like language that's as fast as C

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Rayyan Cyclegar • Edited

Alright, so this seems like an interesting project, and I'm excited to see where you guys get with this. Now, you've said that python is "slow". The reality is that this is relative on the application. For most tasks, python is plenty fast enough, and it's not like you can't optimize it, there's tools such as PyPy, Numba, and cython, which can provide speedups. In a lot of cases however, any speedup at all is unnecessary, since python is fast enough for a good bit of tasks. However, if you're writing something like a 3D game, or something like a kernel, python probably isn't the right choice for that. I personally have never found python to be too slow for anything I've done. That being said, I have mostly stuck to web development, where most of the slowness in your applications are restricted to network related stuff, which would be the same, no matter what language you use.