What matters is being 100x faster than python, not 5x slower than C++ or 2x slower than Java. Performant enough that IO (or network) rather than CPU is the bott

What matters is being 100x faster than python, not 5x slower than C++ or 2x slower than Java. Performant enough that IO (or network) rather than CPU is the bottleneck (in my limited experience). Personally I just far prefer to work in a GCed langauge. Much simpler mental model.