There's a language design tradeoff - Python is is the result of the designers almost never saying "We should do this to make Python faster, although it would ma

There's a language design tradeoff - Python is is the result of the designers almost never saying "We should do this to make Python faster, although it would make the language slightly harder to program in." This even goes as far as choosing not to make improvements that improve performance but make the implementation more complex (for example adding a JIT), which allows Python to continue to add language features.