If I wanted to write a 3D game engine, I wouldn’t use Python either. But there’s zero chance of me ever doing that. Die 90% of Things 90% of people do, Python works just fine. And the performance thing is actively being worked on and getting better all the time.
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dukk@programming.dev 1 year agoSpeed is a serious problem in Python though. Python has its use cases, and so do other languages. Things would not end well if we started using Python for everything.
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 1 year ago
Vulwsztyn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nkt since 3.11, python is now one of the fastest languages
dukk@programming.dev 1 year ago
Definitely not even close to being one of the fastest languages, but still faster nonetheless.
Chunk@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have worked on a lot of real time simulation with python glue. It is… not fun. I’m a better programmer for it though.
noli@programming.dev 1 year ago
This might be an unpopular opinion but python’s speed wouldn’t even be an issue if it was 5x slower than it is now.
Python is a language designed for write-time performance, not runtime performance.