The are some new-ish features like async and there some new parallelization options in 3.8 that help in some very specific cases, but generally you choose Pytho

The are some new-ish features like async and there some new parallelization options in 3.8 that help in some very specific cases, but generally you choose Python because you value development speed more than execution speed. You can use Python (or Ruby, etc) to build fast websites that scale well if you are smart about how you use it and how you design your application, but it still isn't a particularly fast language compared to others.