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by germandiago 17 days ago
When I choose Python for something, it is clearly for its speed.

It is nice to have the speed, always. But in Python, it would be a mistake to do it at the expense of flexibility. Same for typing: it is great to have it. I use it. But Python should be dynamic and the rest and extension that does not compromise everything else.

If a JIT can make Python 2 or 3x faster, or even 10x for some workloads, that is nice. But the language itself should support same idioms, reflection, dynamic typing, etc at the same level.

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oh, I meant it is clearly NOT for its speed.