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Re:Yes, Python is Slow, and I Don’t Care by golergka on Friday September 08, 2017 @10:21AM (#15200328)
You're describing tools usable in writing new code.

What static languages thrive in, however, is maintaining old code that was written by somebody else.

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Re:Yes, Python is Slow, and I Don’t Care by TuringTest on Friday September 08, 2017 @10:31AM (#15200412)
Which is the reason why it makes sense to write new applications in a dynamic language, and later port critical parts of it to more static compiled ones.
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Re:Yes, Python is Slow, and I Don’t Care by taway_1212 on Friday September 08, 2017 @10:44AM (#15200530)
s/port critical parts of it to/dump everything and rewrite from scratch in
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Re:Yes, Python is Slow, and I Don’t Care by TuringTest on Sunday September 17, 2017 @04:25AM (#15268743)
Sure, whatever it takes. I've just written the same thing at another recent thread, so we agree on that.
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