Comment by Etheryte
1 day ago
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.
A pretty good portion uses Fortran code, too.