[scubbo]

This is entirely fair, and I wish I'd been a little less grumpy in my initial reply (I assign some blame to just getting over an illness). Thank you for the gentle correction!

That said - I think it's fair to be irritated by people who write Python off as entirely useless because it is not _the fastest_ language. As you rightly say - it's fast enough for many purposes. It does bother me to see Python immediately counted out of discussions because of its speed when the app in question is extremely insensitive to speed.

[Affric]

It’s all about values.

I have been on teams where Python based approaches were discounted due to “speed” and “industry best practice” and then had the very same engineers create programs that are slow by design in a “fast” language and introduce needless complexity (and bugs) through “faster” database processes.

Like you said, it’s the thoughtless criticism. The meme. I am happy for Python to lose in a design analysis because it’s too slow for what we are building; I am loathe to let it lose because whoever is doing the analysis with me has heard it’s slow.

Which is to say, I get what you’re saying. I think people have been a little ungenerous with your comment.

[scubbo]

> I think people have been a little ungenerous with your comment.

Eh - I engaged with a fraught topic in a snarky way without clarifying that I meant the unintuitive-but-technically-literally-accurate interpretation of my words. Maybe some people have been less-generous than they could have been, but I don't begrudge it - if I look sufficiently like a troll, I won't complain when I get treated like one. Not everyone has the time and mental fortitude to treat everyone online with infinite patience and kindness - I know I sure don't.

Thank you for the support, though!

[wongarsu]

In some ways the weakness even was a virtue. Because Python threads are slow Python has incredible toolsets for multiprocess communication, task queues, job systems, etc.