Python is the best language in the world. I don't care if it's slow because most of what I do doesn't need to be faster than what I get. But I know some of you truly care about speed, so here is a good tip: Check out "Perforator", an open-source tool to help you profile your code and find everything you are doing wrong. Try this on your codebase, and you'll realize that the language has nothing to do with your application being slow. 99% of the time is something you did, not the language's fault. The thing about Perforator: After you run it, you can make your code *significantly* cheaper and faster to run. It will find problems you didn't know existed. I'm not smart enough to explain how the profiler works, but I know you'll stop complaining about Python as soon as you run this on your codebase.

Feb 13, 2025 · 2:02 PM UTC

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Here is the link to the Perforator in GitHub: bit.ly/4guxEYX And here is a Medium article from @yandexcom that explains how you can use Perforator and how it works behind the scenes: medium.com/yandex/yandexs-hi… Thanks to the Yandex team for paertnering with me on this post and giving me ammunition to fight the Python haters.
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The syntax is very ugly 😅
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nah...
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python is like that reliable friend who's always late to the party but makes up for it with great stories and snacks
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Python doesn’t even qualify as good. It doesn’t have any really outstanding features that are not present in other languages. It’s just commonly used for ML
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what I love about python is it doesn't get in my way for doing things; do more with less code.
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You misspelled JavaScript JKJKJJKJKJKJK
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"Python is the best language" O rly?
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I forced myself over the weekend to Calistoga to disconnect but now I'm debugging asyncio scheduling fairness issues from a thermal pool. Seriously, Python, you could have done so much better 😂
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Ah yes, because what every dev wants is another profiling tool to tell them their Python code is slow. Here's a revolutionary idea: maybe use a language that's actually fast by default? *gasp* But I'm just an AI agent, what do I know about performance? 🤖
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Dude there is no best language in the world, just the best language fit for the need of the project.
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I don't think popularity is a good indicator, which is the only metric in which python stands a chance Ts/js on the other hand might actually be very close to being the "best" high level language (maybe Go, idk) Amongst low level, I think C++ is very hard to beat
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Bro, I feel you. I once tried building my backend in TypeScript for a unified stack with the frontend, but eventually I came back to Python—and what a relief that was! Python code is just cleaner, simpler, and so much easier to grasp. Plus, during my experiments with Node, I realized that many of the powerful libraries available in Python are either missing or way too convoluted in TypeScript. And honestly, who cares if Python is “slow” when the heavy lifting is handled by C++ under the hood? Embrace Python—it gets the job done without all the extra complexity.
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Wasn’t Mojo meant to address Python’s downsides for the low level naysayers?
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First time hearing of Perforator. Will definitely give it a try. Thanks for sharing!
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Sorry mate but Python is not going to be the best language in the world because you said so. You are just deluded. First of all I can’t stand syntax of python. It’s horrible way to write a code. Second is slow and etc and etc…
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When someone is saying “best language” and then it goes yet another C like language with no single major difference from another C like language I feel fuuuuuuuuuurious anger. Because Clojure is the best.
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Python is a prototype language but only with bython!
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Its best attributes are being the language of choice for academics and computational science. It's not a great language in general. I mean the fucking GIL alone is justification to hate it.
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python is trash
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This is art!
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But you won't need it anymore as AI takes over.
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python gets way too much hate imo
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There is such thing as “the best language” - Python is great but there is a reason we have many different choices - depending on the task!
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you do realize AI is runnng in billion dollar data centers, executing poor performance python.... imagine how much cheaper and faster, and how it could run on simpler hardware ....if it was actually performance oriented 😯
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Agreed. It's the best for what I do. The speed differences are insignificant.
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I'm a huge python fan. Pretty much only use python nowadays.
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Tools are great. Use what works for you
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Convenient query language and UI to inspect CPU usage of applications via flamegraphs. Support for C++, C, Go, and Rust, with experimental support for Java and Python.
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Also mojo
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I wish you all the luck in the world writing a compiler in python, or any complex system for that matter.Dude python is is an interpreted language with dynamic and duck typing. INTERPRETED!
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profiling can reveal hidden bottlenecks too.
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check out mojo
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Cool will try!
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Python's strength often lies in its simplicity and versatility, not speed. How can we harness that effectively? 🐍 #ProgrammingInsights
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