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

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 10:00 +0000, Chris via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> 
[…]
> Well, you know how gourmet sausages are made (100% meat), because 
> you make them yourself apparently. But I was talking about the 
> sausages you get out there ;) A lot of websites are not 
> "planned". They are quickly put together to promote an idea. The 
> code/architecture is not important at that stage. The idea is 
> important. The website has to have dynamic content that can be 
> edited by non-programmers (Not even PHP! HTML at most!). If you 
> designed a website from a programming point of view first, you'd 
> never get the idea out in time.#

And most commercial websites selling things are truly appalling: slow
performance, atrocious usability/UX. Who cares if the site is
brilliantly tuned if it is unusable?


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