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threeseed on May 4, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Negotiations Failed: How Oracle Killed Java EE

So I have to learn Python and C.

With C being an incredibly difficult language to get right.

So difficult that languages like Go and Rust were invented.

rbanffy on May 4, 2019 | [–]

Only if the performance of your hot Python parts is a deal breaker, which is almost never.

In almost 20 years, I did it once. And it wasn't really needed, but I wanted to know how much it'd be improved.

boshomi on May 4, 2019 | | [–]

Consider Nim language, it compiles to c.

Luyt on May 4, 2019 | [–]

Have you tried Cython already? That's almost Python and much faster.

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