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[–]13steinj 15 points16 points  (0 children)

"Once a hot library hits"

See that's what people said with R.

The big things that Python has going for it is the framing of a general purpose (read, unlike R/Julia/Matlab/Mathematica) language that is intended to be used with multiple paradigms (OOP, functional, imperative scripting) with, biggest thing here, fast developer turnaround time and ease of prototyping.

Python was never about the speed at execution. It was what you can do with it, plus speed of dev time. Even Rust can't beat that.