Comment by DeathArrow
4 days ago
I feel like Python should be much faster already. With all the big companies using Python and it's huge popularity I would have expected that a lot of money, work and research would be put into making Python faster and better.
The Faster CPython project was from one of "the big companies" and did make significant progress with each version of Python, even if some of its more ambitious goals weren't met. The results of which you're seeing in the benchmarks in this blog post.
Why?
There are other languages you can use to make stuff go fast. Python isn't for making stuff go fast. Its for rapid dev, and that advantage matters way more when you already are going to be slow due to waiting for network response
This has always confused me... is Python really that much better at rapid dev? I work on a Python project and every day I wish the people that started the project had chosen a different language that actually scaled well with the problem rather than Python, which they likely chose because it was for "rapid dev".
You can run Python processes in parallel for "scaling". Youtube and Uber run python backends. This is cheaper than developer time per hour.
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