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Much faster than Python or almost any non-native-compiled language (except Java)

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Python is a notoriously slow language so that's not saying much.

And there are a number of languages on the JVM e.g. Java, Scala, Kotlin, Clojure as well as countless compiled ones which are near-native.

JVM languages do look interesting and with Graal there seems to be an evolutionary upgrade path from JavaScript code.

"Faster than Python" is a very different thing than "near native performance".

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Python is a notoriously slow language so that's not saying much.

And there are a number of languages on the JVM e.g. Java, Scala, Kotlin, Clojure as well as countless compiled ones which are near-native.

JVM languages do look interesting and with Graal there seems to be an evolutionary upgrade path from JavaScript code.

"Faster than Python" is a very different thing than "near native performance".

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse