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not how i read his tweet. he was lamenting that python is too slow for some server side development use cases. and he gave cpp as an alternative that would be
by blondin 7y ago
not how i read his tweet. he was lamenting that python is too slow for some server side development use cases. and he gave cpp as an alternative that would be simpler and faster. he even followed up citing java and csharp.
totally agree. if all your backend server is mostly complex serialization & de-serialization, and pushing bytes to other sub-systems, i think many other languages have advantages over python.
wondering why no mention of go or rust though...