Let's just say that Python 3 is, in fact, slower than Python 2. Performance is only part of what makes a language great. In fact, if you need raw performance, P

Let's just say that Python 3 is, in fact, slower than Python 2. Performance is only part of what makes a language great. In fact, if you need raw performance, Python is not the language to go. Most of my performance intensive code run with NumPy or Pandas, which is not Python anyway and are not at all affected. I'm also not sure how you got the impression that everyone thinks Python 3 sucks. The fact that you see "apologist" might mean something?