It would be nice to have a faster, parallel Python but the best scientific ecosystems are Python and R. For most scientists, programming productivity matters t

It would be nice to have a faster, parallel Python but the best scientific ecosystems are Python and R. For most scientists, programming productivity matters the most, and plenty of programs are embarassingly parallel. For instance it's no trouble at all just launching a single threaded Python program once per sequencing sample, and it plays nicely with the supercomputer queuing system.