Comment by Etheryte
1 day ago
If there was sufficient interest in it, most performance issues could be solved. Look at Python or Javascript, big companies have financial interest in it so they've poured an insane amount of capital into making them faster.
Do you think that "most performance issues" in Python are solved?
Isn’t python still the slowest mainstream language?
Being slower than other mainstream languages isn't really a problem in and of itself if it's fast enough to get the job done. Looking at all the ML and LLM work that's done in Python, I would say it is fast enough to get things done.
As pointed out already, most of that uses C code or GPU code to do the work and not slow Python code.
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No. Ruby exists.
Ruby is now faster than Python, last I saw a comparison, though it used to be the other way around.