I'll grant you all of those points, if you use Cython to compile your code to native or use a native library to do the expensive parts of your code, then it wor

I'll grant you all of those points, if you use Cython to compile your code to native or use a native library to do the expensive parts of your code, then it works out fine. Both of those get around Python's inherit slowness by doing the costly things outside of Python.