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What's the point of Python if it's slow? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 days ago by CarlLandry357@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev
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Console? good, GUI? good, game dev? use Godot engine with its similar language Gdscript, but what else? Ive been seeing AI, Data Science stuff, but whats the point if ita slow?

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

AI seems mental, though, unless Python is just some glue for calling functions or libraries that are implemented in lower-level languages, which is definitely also a thing.

Most of the work is done by parallel compute hardware on most systems, not the CPU running Python.

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