It's easy to make python faster, you have PyPy, you can even program everything in python and then make a simple C code for the bottleneck and wrap it with pyth

It's easy to make python faster, you have PyPy, you can even program everything in python and then make a simple C code for the bottleneck and wrap it with python. Php it's another example, Facebook uses php and it made changes to its compiler in order to make it way faster. So bottom line, if people feel better writing in Python let's write Python and improve it to make it faster.