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

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 15 October 2015 at 10:00:21 UTC, Chris wrote:
> about the sausages you get out there ;) A lot of websites are 
> not "planned". They are quickly put together to promote an idea.

They are WordPress sites... :-(

> If you designed a website from a programming point of view 
> first, you'd never get the idea out in time.

It's not that bad, but modelling data for nosql databases is a 
bigger challenge than getting decent performance from the code.

There is another issue with using languages like Rust/C++/D and 
that is: if it crashes you loose all the concurrent requests, 
perhaps even without a reasonable log trace. What I'd want for 
handling requests is something less fragile where only the single 
request that went bad crash out. Pure Python and Java provide 
this property.