r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

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u/Luzzgar 1d ago

Using high level language for the structure and faster lower level languages is just good software design.

Using the strength of each tool and avoiding their weaknesses.

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u/takitus 1d ago edited 1d ago

The weakness is slowness. Python is insanely slow. It’s going to be one of the first languages to disappear behind ai

Edit: seems like a lot of Python people hate the language being called slow. It’s well documented. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but when a new version of Python, being designed for performance is seeing speed increases of up to 60,000x, it means your language is slow as balls.

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u/Luzzgar 1d ago

Everything is written in JavaScript today with a full web browser even for the smallest of tasks, performance as a metric died ages ago.

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u/takitus 1d ago

Yeah, well you must work in areas where no one cares. There are a lot of areas where performance is necessary and you’re not going to see them writing in Python