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

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 18 October 2015 at 12:50:43 UTC, Namespace wrote:
> 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.
>
> Maybe also interesting: 
> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LO_WI3N-3p2Wp9PDWyv5B6EGFZ8XTOTNJ7Hd40WOUHo/mobilepresent?pli=1&slide=id.g70b0035b2_1_168

What I got out of that is that someone at Mozilla were writing a 
push service (stateful connections, which more demanding than 
regular http) and found that jitted Python was more suitable than 
Go for productivity reasons. Then they speculate that their own 
Rust will be better suited than Go for such services in the 
future, apparently not yet.


To the poster further up in the thread: turns out that reddit.com 
is implemented in Python and a little bit of C: 
https://github.com/reddit/reddit

So there we have it. Python gives higher productive at the cost 
of efficiency, but does not have a significant impact on 
effectiveness, for regular web services that are built to scale.