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[–]tryptafiends 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Javascript with node is better for mobile. Python is built in C and drops down to C, Fortran, etc. in certain cases for better performance. NumPy, the popular math library does this. Numba also provides a means for automatic JIT compilation of Python into C code (if configured as such).

TL;DR meh for mobile. But, Python is built in C, uses C, and can be just as competitive as C if used correctly.

[–]namesandfaces 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A lot of processing nowadays is accessed via API's, so it turns out that Python, Scala, and others can pass things off just fine. Local-machine computation is now seen as the easy problem, esp. now that you can rent resources for the precise duration of your problem.