> People need more performance, particularly multicore performance. Traditional Python supporters can put their head in the sand about this if they want, but th

> People need more performance, particularly multicore performance. Traditional Python supporters can put their head in the sand about this if they want, but these highly-performant new languages have clearly found a niche among Python folks tired of trying to optimize all the time. I agree, the status-quo isn't great at the moment if you want to use Python and optimally exploit all your cores. I actually cover that in a more recent presentation: https://speakerdeck.com/trent/parallelism-and-concurrency-with-python?slide=22 https://speakerdeck.com/trent/parallelism-and-concurrency-wi...