The speed of the programming language, in many applications, is a lot less relevant than the overall architecture. For example if you’re running a Web server an

The speed of the programming language, in many applications, is a lot less relevant than the overall architecture. For example if you’re running a Web server and you’re serving a request through some hyper optimized C program, that is “fast”. But using a CDN in front of a slow Python server is almost always going to be faster for end users. Point is, the application is often just one part of a system. Python might let you develop quickly and avoid footguns, and having one slow link in the system doesn’t mean the system as a whole is gonna suck