Why do people use Python instead of C/C++ ... lower than it is with languages like Java, C++ or C. Yeah, it’s interpreted (ish). Yeah, it’s less efficient at execution, sometimes by a lot.

So it’s evident that languages like Python, Perl, and Ruby are not really energy efficient. On the other hand, C, C++, and Rust are some of the greenest languages of the lot.

There appears to be a resurgence in interest in 35-year-old programming language C++, which has risen to third place in Tiobe's index for April 2019. C++ was created in 1985 as an extension of C ...