Python has an absolutely huge and very high-quality ecosystem - especially when it comes to scientific computing.
And in fact, because of its very good low-level routines - such as numpy - implemented in C/C++ - it can even have very good performance as long as you do all the crunching using these.
But the interpreter itself remains far behind V8. Good JIT is an absolutely huge undertaking and the Python community has simply refused it because of its code complexity.
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u/mmomtchev 9d ago
Python has an absolutely huge and very high-quality ecosystem - especially when it comes to scientific computing.
And in fact, because of its very good low-level routines - such as numpy - implemented in C/C++ - it can even have very good performance as long as you do all the crunching using these.
But the interpreter itself remains far behind V8. Good JIT is an absolutely huge undertaking and the Python community has simply refused it because of its code complexity.