Numba and Cython can speed up Python code dramatically. Also, Python takes advantage of a lot of libraries which are C/C++/Rust at the their core. In many case

Numba and Cython can speed up Python code dramatically. Also, Python takes advantage of a lot of libraries which are C/C++/Rust at the their core. In many cases, it is possible to get Python code to within 2-10x of C using numpy/numba/cython... but with 10% of the lines of code. In many cases, this is an acceptable trade.