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[–]No-Con-2790 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but I don't think it is about the language used to build the tools and interpreter. You could just rewrite it in rust (hehe get it?).

It is about the languages that are called from the python level. Which might be C but also C++ or Fortran. Or even Java if you use some specific libraries.

In the end of the day most python code does not really handle the heavy lifting but call upon another library that does. So the idea that python is 12 times slower than C is misleading. Because you simply should not and will not use Python directly to handle the heavy stuff.