[blindseer]

I wish Cython was a more popular option than choosing Julia or Go. Cython is great and you can get some real performance out of it.

The only drawback is that a Cython module still loads the CPython interpreter, so I personally prefer writing performance critical code in Rust instead. Writing in Julia has the same drawbacks of not being embeddable that writing in Cython does.

Julia has multiple dispatch and may seem more appealing but at scale it is a very slow language to develop in. And for scripts it takes FOREVER (try loading Plots, CSV, DataFrames, Makie etc every time you restart. It’s genuinely insane that that’s the norm.)

If the whole Python ecosystem was in Cython (i.e. numpy, scipy, etc) I’d never use another backend language again.