Re:Node.js 14 is over 20x faster than Python3.8 for fib(n)
by masklinn on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @01:31PM
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> why has python become to standard for data science?
Because it's glue, so its speed doesn't matter overly much.
> Is it Library support or purely community based?
That's a dichotomy which doesn't really make sense. Python has cultivated and attracted attention from scientific communities from the start: the matrix-sig (a special interest group focusing on array computing packages) was created back in '95 and a number of their suggestions were added as language-level conveniences (that continues to this day, `@` was recently added as the "matrix multiplication" operator).
Because it's glue, so its speed doesn't matter overly much.
> Is it Library support or purely community based?
That's a dichotomy which doesn't really make sense. Python has cultivated and attracted attention from scientific communities from the start: the matrix-sig (a special interest group focusing on array computing packages) was created back in '95 and a number of their suggestions were added as language-level conveniences (that continues to this day, `@` was recently added as the "matrix multiplication" operator).