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| Posted: 08:52am 28 Jul 2026 |
Speed is not everything. The language is what you need for a job, what you are comfortable with, that runs on the required platform.
These speed adventures have been going on for decades. When all the computers were really, painfully, slow the language speeds really mattered a lot. Outside of modern video games, the speeds today are not as significant. Everything runs fast, so much faster than it did years ago. How much better is Hangman, or Pacman or a home alarm display panel if it runs at 1Ghz, using assembly rather than 50Mhz, using BASIC?
If you want speed, use assembler or maybe C. Or stick with a slower language on a faster processor.
To me, Python is just structured BASIC with a beard. Usually a bit faster but both can get the job done, so why get so worried about one or the other? Plenty elsewhere to get stressed about.