But in many cases, it doesn’t have to be an either/or proposition. Properly optimized, Python applications can run with surprising speed — perhaps not Java or C fast, but fast enough for Web ...

Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster languages ...

A new project to change the CPython runtime to boost multithreaded performance has drawn the attention of Python’s core development team. One of Python’s long-standing weaknesses, its inability to ...

Python is eating the world: How one developer’s side project became the hottest programming language on the planet Your email has been sent Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van ...