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by grog_tremor 1202 days ago
> it's the only way a tragically slow language like Python can keep up.

Those were your words, not mine. I need not make any assumptions.

I just replied listing use cases where Python shine due to its strengths, performance being mostly irrelevant. I didn't even mention data science.

And although it's beyond the point, if I was to use Python, why should I care in which language a library was written? If the language allows libraries written in other languages, this is actually a nice feature.

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> If the language allows libraries written in other languages, this is actually a nice feature.

That’s actually my primary use case for python, playing with C/C++ libraries in a repl because they don’t natively have one.

Sure, it takes work to wrap a library but that’s something I enjoy doing.