"Compared to what the mobile operating systems expect, Python is big and slow. It uses a lot of battery ... Python, Java, C++, C#, Visual Basic, JavaScript, Assembly language, PHP, and SQL.

InfoWorld: You answered critics who said that Python is too slow. You said every time you ... with a little bit of code you wrote in C or C++ rather than rewriting your entire system in a faster ...

Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster ...