I do use Python and I am not that bothered about speed. Very little of what I use it for has performance bottlenecks in the Python. Its the database or the net

I do use Python and I am not that bothered about speed. Very little of what I use it for has performance bottlenecks in the Python. Its the database or the network or IO or whatever. On the few occasions when it does I can rewrite critical bits of code. I definitely care more about backward compatibility than I do about performance. It feels like Python development is being driven by the needs of one particular group (people who use ML heavily, possibly because they have deep pockets) and I wonder whether this, and a few other things will make it less attractive a language for me and others.