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by Decabytes 598 days ago
I'm glad the Python community is focusing more on CPython's performance. Getting speed ups on existing code for free feels great. As much as I hate how slow Python is, I do think its popularity indicates it made the correct tradeoffs in regards to developer ease vs being fast enough.

Learning it has only continued to be a huge benefit to my career, as it's used everywhere which underlies how important popularity of a language can be for developers when evaluating languages for career choices