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		azkalam 24 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it? I've never understood this. Python cannot be optimized like C, C++ or Rust. It cannot do advanced functional things like OCaml, Haskell or Scala. It cannot run in browsers like TypeScript. It cannot do games programming like C# and it can't do crazy macro stuff like Clojure. I don't think it's even second best at those things.

lenerdenator 23 days ago [–]

I'm reading this as, "It cannot do things the best", and that's correct. It can't.

But it can do them well enough, and enough people know it that they can drag a solution across the line in most domains.

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