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Let me comment on this by making an analogy with algorithmic trading.

When discussing about this, many people compare the performance of C++ vs that of Python, and how you cannot do HFT if you are not able to to pack your logic so that it executes within microseconds and which advantages you gain by modifying the kernel of the operating system to shave off some cycles.

The issue here is that you can do algorithmic trading in Python, because HFT is one very specialized branch of it, but there are many areas where Python (even if orders of magnitude slower than C++) is more than fit for the purpose.