I'm not necessarily advocating java, I think rust is def the best solution in most cases -- but java definitely has a significant performance edge on python. Th

I'm not necessarily advocating java, I think rust is def the best solution in most cases -- but java definitely has a significant performance edge on python. The JVM will never be quite as fast as native code, but it's very fast these days and it gets better every year. Certainly much, much faster than python on the average.