This is one of the misconceptions about Python, that it's "slow". Python has several type annotation systems with JITing capability, and can easily achieve C-s

This is one of the misconceptions about Python, that it's "slow". Python has several type annotation systems with JITing capability, and can easily achieve C-speeds (as well as interface easily to C libraries). We've given two tutorials at Supercomputing in the last two years, and the trend for high performance computing in Python is on the rise. Don't count it out!