[Aardappel]

Python's default implementation is so incredibly slow, such that any programmer that implements a new language that doesn't just make "everything dynamic" will automatically end up with a language that is faster than Python without really trying.

There are probably a 1000+ language implementations out there that are faster than Python, most of which are single person efforts.

Lobster is a much more static language, and does inlining of functions, inlining of structs, specialization etc that allow it to remove a lot of runtime cost, such that even the VM is fast.

It also has been in development for about 8 years now. I've been working on compilers in one way or another for almost 30 years.