>now people will wait for the performance to improve. In the meantime, the userbase has left for Ruby or Python or something else. Performance and Python aren'

>now people will wait for the performance to improve. In the meantime, the userbase has left for Ruby or Python or something else. Performance and Python aren't exactly related (I know you can call into C code with numpy etc., but still Python itself and idiomatic code in it is often super slow).