Python is really really slow compared to JS though.

kukkamario · 2024-10-21T05:45:44.000000Z

Node is so slow to start that python script can complete before Javascript even begins to execute.

jampekka · 2024-10-21T09:01:59.000000Z

For extremely simple scripts maybe. I get around 70 ms difference in startup time.

  $ time python3 -c "print('Hello world')"
  Hello world

  real 0m0.017s

  $ time node -e "console.log('Hello world')"
  Hello world
  
  real 0m0.084s

zeroonetwothree · 2024-10-20T22:28:20.000000Z

I once worked on a Python system that had 50 machines dedicated to it. We were able to rewrite it in a more performant language such that it easily ran on one machine. This also allowed us to avoid all the issues distributed systems have.

So yeah, Python is not great for systems programming

gaganyaan · 2024-10-20T22:26:34.000000Z

CPython is (though it's slowly getting better). Pypy is amazingly fast