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

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On Sunday, 18 October 2015 at 13:29:50 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> 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.
I liked the fact that Python with PyPy is more performant than Go 
(in contrast to the title "Python is slow") and that Go-Routines 
leak.

>
> 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.