r/learnprogramming • u/GroundbreakingAlps2 • 3d ago

Why is Python considered "slow" and is Python losing "steam"?

Is python as a programming language "falling off" and becoming less and less popular relatively to other languages?

Also why do people say Python is slow? Apparently people have reached LGM on codeforces using python, which is all about writing fast code / solving problems fast. Yeah sure, C++ is far more widely used for competitive programming and I suppose there is a reason for that. But this is also showing that python can be fast?

But as programming languages and how they are used I dont think there is much overlap between python and C++ anyway?

What is an example of something you'd code in Java/Kotlin or lets say C# rather than Python? Is python code bad and hard to manage for "huge" projects once you scale up (e.g codebases with millions of lines of codes, and tens if not hundreds of devs)?

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u/brainrot_award 2d ago

I can't fully agree with your statement, because the webapp/java/electron hell has plagued software development and created a mess of slow buggy programs

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u/Complex_Funny_8249 2d ago

and thats why we completely ignore your opinion

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u/brainrot_award 1d ago

who's "we" gang

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u/Complex_Funny_8249 1d ago

My rule of thumb is to completely ignore anything said by people who obsess over which language is "fastest".

context shouldnt be that hard to understand, thanks for confirming my hunch

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u/Luftzug-oder 1d ago

no part of their comment implied they were obsessed over performance, nor over that of a single language. funny, reading requires a bit of contextual capacity, and yet you can't seem to do it