OT: why do people use python when it is slow?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 13 October 2015 at 23:26:14 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Python-so-popular-despite-being-so-slow
> Andrei suggested posting more widely.

That's flaimbait:

«Many really popular websites use Python. But why is that? 
Doesn't it affect the performance of the website?»

No. Really popular websites use pre-generated content / front end 
caches / CDNs or wait for network traffic from distributed 
databases.