[enriquto]

> I've yet to meet someone who is even cognizant that Numpy is really calling out to some low level C

then you've never met anybody who builds the tools that you use. Which is alright. But if you disparage their point of view then you sound a bit funny.

[7thaccount]

In this particular niche', yes. But again, that is almost entirely irrelevant to the vast majority of the millions of scientific Python users.

I'd love to write my own solution in assembly or C where I give birth to every function, but nobody has time for that level of monumental effort. Low level matrix libraries have a lot of inertia for a reason.

I'm not disparaging anybody's point of view. Yours is certainly valid for a small group of elite users. I'm just trying to point out that it is only a valid point for a very small group. Most simply view these things from the perspective of the entire ecosystem. Even scientists well aware of the C internals will not always use that knowledge.