[lolinder]

Why would a trade-off make you sad? For most code that gets written, being able to quickly make something work is far more important than a 1000x increase in performance. Some projects do need performance, and for those no one should choose Python. For all the others, I'm glad Python exists.

[alar44]

Because there's lots of projects out there with absolutely horrible optimization. Doing stupid shit inside of loops etc. It turns into the blind leading the blind and churns out bad code.