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Have you ever been told that Python couldn’t be used for a project because it wouldn’t be fast enough? I have, and I find it a bit frustrating as big banks, YouTube, Instagram, and plenty of other places that are performance-sensitive still manage to select Python and be happy.
And that’s when it dawned on me that the problem is people are not treating language selection as potential form of premature optimization: if you select a programming language based on your preconceived notions of how a language performs, you will never know if the language that might be a better, more productive fit for your developers would have actually worked out.
And so this blog post is going to argue that Python makes sense to select even for projects with performance concerns and how to work towards better performance in an iterative fashion if your first attempt isn’t fast enough.