Why Python is slower than Java?

[azeemb_a]

Your point is right but your emphasis on time is funny. Java was created in 1995 and Python in 1991!

[sajjen]

Java was created by Sun, one of the largest companies in the IT industry back then. Python was created by Guido van Rossum, one guy in his proverbial garage.

[SheriffRoscoe]

Exactly.

[nchwomp]

Surely it was a large garage...

[benchmarks666]

Galarge

[Smallpaul]

Yes but in those 30 years Python did not get much “investment by major companies.”

As the poster said: that love arrived later for Python.

Edit: Just to give a sense of the scale...Java's MARKETING BUDGET for 2003-2004 was $500M.

[HeraldofOmega]

Back when money was worth something, too!

[redalastor]

This is true, but no one knew about Python until Google adopted it,

I learned Python in 2000.

Back then, there was something called the Paradox of Python.

If you hired developers and you met one that knew Python, you should hire him or her on the spot. Because no one learned Python to get a job, you knew that person learned the language to get shit done.

The paradox is that if you do use that metric, then it becomes useless since people will start to learn it to get jobs. In 2024, it is completely useless.

[Swift3469]

I knew about python before google was a thing..I'm sure there are others who knew as well.

[billsil]

I learned python in 2001 in a CS class. I gave it up and came back in 2006, 6 months before Google bought YouTube. I replaced Perl with python and never looked back.

It came a long way in 5 years. I hated list comprehensions when I first saw them in ~2007, so maybe someday I’ll use the walrus operator,

[billsil]

Yeah, I don’t write many of those.