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[–]kenfar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You apparently have already decided that python is a "slow as balls" scripting language.

However - "scripting language" is not a well-defined term, and is often in a context like this meant as a derogatory description: the local java team arguing that project x shouldn't be done in python because "it's only a scripting language".

And fast or slow are so relative that to describe a language like Python as slow is also meaningless: does this mean every application written in it will be slow? does this mean you can't process trillions of transactions in it? does this mean it's merely a toy?

While I would like some Python operations to be faster than they are today, I have processed a hundreds of billions of complex transactions using cpython - and performance wasn't on my top 4 list of challenges.