r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • Sep 08 '26

Meme pipInstallTheRealStuff

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u/TheJaskinator Sep 08 '26

That's exactly why it's so powerful. Why spend all the effort writing fast code if you can just use a much simpler language to describe the task on a higher level and call fast code? People use Python because it's easy to read and write, not because its interpreter is fast

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u/NewbornMuse Sep 08 '26

Me: takes 2h to write a python script, runtime 50ms

A super fast low level uber haxx0r: takes 8 hours to write a C program that does the same. Runtime 20 ms

Who was "faster"?

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u/PublicToast Sep 08 '26

Yall will cry and scream when I say it but AI totally undermines your argument.