> Python is by far the fastest to write, cleanest, more maintainable programming language I know, and that a bit of a runtime performance penalty is a small pri

> Python is by far the fastest to write, cleanest, more maintainable programming language I know, and that a bit of a runtime performance penalty is a small price to pay when I'm rewarded with significant productivity gains. > (…) > Before you ask, no, I did not include Ruby, PHP or any other of the "slow" languages in this benchmark, simply because I don't currently use any of these languages and I wouldn't start using them even if they showed great results on a benchmark. Why bother with benchmarks, then? Clearly you don’t care for them and just want to continue using Python because that’s what you’re familiar with and like. That’s fine, it’s your prerogative, you don’t have to justify that choice to anyone who doesn’t have the same priorities you do. Personally I dislike Python and find it to be far from “the fastest to write, cleanest, more maintainable programming language” and I wouldn’t want to use it even if its performance were amazing. But that doesn’t matter, if we all liked the same things we wouldn’t have so many programming languages. Or operating systems. Or brands of sneakers. Or… When I run benchmarks, I do so in real use cases, to test different algorithms for a task that will be in production.