My standard response when someone asks me how I deal with Python being such a slow language is that Python is by far the fastest to write, cleanest, more maintainable programming language I know, and…
I have found that if it matters for some code I can relatively easily get it withinn a x2 of Java by using one of the many ways to get python code to compile down to native code. Or use a framework like torch, pandas that is already written in c or rust.
The thing is, that most times it doesn’t matter, because you are anyway waiting on other systems or components. Waiting faster is not going to speed things up.
That being said, of course it is possible to write python code that wastes abysmal amounts of energy. And it is easier to code in python, so that is of course easier to do than in other languages. Not sure if that is the fault of the language though.
I have found that if it matters for some code I can relatively easily get it withinn a x2 of Java by using one of the many ways to get python code to compile down to native code. Or use a framework like torch, pandas that is already written in c or rust.
The thing is, that most times it doesn’t matter, because you are anyway waiting on other systems or components. Waiting faster is not going to speed things up.
That being said, of course it is possible to write python code that wastes abysmal amounts of energy. And it is easier to code in python, so that is of course easier to do than in other languages. Not sure if that is the fault of the language though.