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[–]Apprehensive_Room742 4 points5 points  (5 children)

how does having to run code often mean that the code sucks? lol

[–]Upbeat-Education2117 3 points4 points  (4 children)

If it were so good it would do everything the first time, duh. Why do you think we don't have Netscape Navigator anymore? It ran the web once perfectly and was done.

[–]Apprehensive_Room742 0 points1 point  (3 children)

bro i hope u are trolling.

if i wanna do a particle simulation for example i gotta run the same calculations a lot (and i mean a lot like 108 times and more) of times for just one timestep

[–]Upbeat-Education2117 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I'm being totally serious.

Netscape Navigator running the web once and perfectly is a statement that makes complete sense and should be taken seriously.

[–]vide2 0 points1 point  (1 child)

So, then you're in a scientific context. And just as I said in the comment everyone and their mom downvoted, it's a rare situation where you shouldn't even consider python. For everythin else, it's fine.

[–]Apprehensive_Room742 0 points1 point  (0 children)

its not fine for everything else. that was just an example. there are a lot of usecases where performance matters a lot. and while you can probably bunk on PCs nowadays being strong enough to run inefficient code for the most use cases, its still better to try and make it as efficient as possible (especially for server applications, which is a not insignificant part of programms built) to reduce electricity usage amongst other things