> The idea that a certain programming language could be proven to be more productive than another is laughable. The idea that one chemical could be proven to b

> The idea that a certain programming language could be proven to be more productive than another is laughable. The idea that one chemical could be proven to be more effective than another is an equivalent problem. History, application, duration, there's a permutation of issues under that umbrella, as well. The problem is that nobody wants to argue about it very much. The Quorum project tried, to a small degree. > Why don't you just be honest and say you don't care Python is slow because you like using it? It's that and that you have an existing toolchain/codebase you don't want to rewrite in a potentially SLOWER way, because you don't know another language well enough. Python devs rather "solve real problems" than worry about a class of problems that their tool is inadequate for. There are always new trivial problems, where performance doesn't matter.