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Re:On Learning Rust and Go: Migrating Away from Python by mlthoughts2018 on Sunday March 24, 2019 @06:01PM (#19479037)
To program in CPython is to use thin wrappers around C-level implemented extension types and modules. For example, all major built-in container types.

If you program in Python for performance-critical applications, as I do, then you will frequently hand-write C-level extension modules, write extension modules in Cython, use JIT tools like numba.

All of this stuff “is Python.”

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Re:On Learning Rust and Go: Migrating Away from Python by wrmsr on Monday March 25, 2019 @12:38AM (#19480327)
even for the crud apps so frequently referred to in this thread the equivalent 'real code' is the sql rdbms written in c or c++ no matter what the webapp language is. i don't advocate using python in million line monoliths despite it being my favorite lang in general at the moment but the volume of cognitive dissonance and false dichotomies in this thread is crushing.
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