"Slow is relative." Correct. Relative to the languages I prefer, Python is slow Python encourages people to write long scripts and large projects comprised o

"Slow is relative." Correct. Relative to the languages I prefer, Python is slow Python encourages people to write long scripts and large projects comprised of many scripts Are these "run once" programs Python is one of the least energy efficient languages There seems to be an enormous amount of effort spent on trying to make Python faster. To me, this implies it is slow or, at least, not fast enough, but others may see things differently. The language has a devoted following, that's for sure For me, the startup time makes Python unusable