• lime!@feddit.nu
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      16 days ago

      one of python’s strong suits is it’s foreign function interface. it’s very easy to call code in other languages from python, which can speed execution up significantly

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      16 days ago

      Pythons weak typing means it never knows what is what. It’s up to the programmer to not screw it up.

      • Splendid4117@piefed.social
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        16 days ago

        I think it’s more that a ton of popular python libraries (things like pandas, tensor, etc) are actually built in C, so python is just C wearing a mask