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

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 14 October 2015 at 05:42:12 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad 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.
>
> 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.

For a long time, Ola, I am done discussing with you.  But I would 
ask you to take more responsibility for the effect of you words.  
The piece you quote is from the question, and not from what I 
wrote.  You refer to it as flame bait, and don't make this clear 
in what you write.