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This keeps getting posted, and while it makes some valid points, it's a lot of handwaving. Arguably, other languages can get code out faster depending on the dev, language, etc.
Micropython is equivalent to a real-time cooperative-multitasking OS. If it had ~~better~~ support for things like cffi, you could implement posix on top of it. I can imagine a laptop that runs gnu+python in the next few years.
That's a whole new usecase, simply because that implementation uses a lot less ram. What usecases would we discover for a faster python?
Shared objects and proper sandboxing would also be huge.
"It doesn't matter than Python is slow, besides we can use compiled libraries to speed it up" "People saying it doesn't matter that Python is slow are deluding themselves and preventing Python from getting faster like JS did" "Python is inherently harder to optimize than JS since it has " "Smalltalk/Lisp/etc are also very dynamic yet are much faster" "The slowness of Python is harming the planet by being inefficient…
The fact that Python is slow isn't its only problem. What I care more about nowadays is wasting my time hunting bugs that could have been avoided by a static type system.
Please tell me, do you write tests? I've learned that it's necessary. I do 100% code coverage and I'm enjoying TDD a lot.
The fact that Python is slow isn't its only problem. What I care more about nowadays is wasting my time hunting bugs that could have been avoided by a static type system.
Please tell me, do you write tests? I've learned that it's necessary. I do 100% code coverage and I'm enjoying TDD a lot.
I was all ready to savage his opinion after reading the headline but I agree looking at my architecture that I designed for the company I work for, CPU isn't the bottleneck. Every time I try to increase performance by multi threading as much as possible, the databases start screaming. On the other hand, the idea that dynamic languages are more productive than static languages are laughable. Statically type languages…
What I have heard complaints about Python are (and I don't agree with all these points):
* Its not statically typed
* The python 2/3 compatibility
* It has some design flaws: GIL, variable assigning, mutable variables, lambdas, indentation (I don't agree with all these but this is complaints I have heard).
* The plethora of packaging (ie its not unified)
I guess one could argue its slow because it can't do concurrency well but that really isn't raw speed.
Then the author started comparing string processing of programmer time from a study which... doesn't help the authors point at all.
* Python has and will always be fast at string processing and most people know this
* The people that complain about python speed are almost certainly not doing string processing
* I have serious questions about the study in general (many languages have changed quite a bit since then)
The fact that Python is slow isn't its only problem. What I care more about nowadays is wasting my time hunting bugs that could have been avoided by a static type system.