Nobody would pick Python because it performs well. In many (and as performance of computers in general improves, more) cases, it performs well enough though.

Nobody would pick Python because it performs well. In many (and as performance of computers in general improves, more) cases, it performs well enough though. For one (admittedly absurd) example, where it just doesn't: a network device driver in user space: https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages