>It’s more important to get stuff done than to make it go fast. Hmpth. Why must I choose? Python is very poorly - even perversely - designed from a performance

>It’s more important to get stuff done than to make it go fast. Hmpth. Why must I choose? Python is very poorly - even perversely - designed from a performance perspective. I suspect the only reason we use it is because it was an early offering amongst "human-factors-oriented languages", and it now has the momentum. But there's no intrinsic conflict - there exist languages now that are arguably intrinsically better along every conceivable metric.