It was some combination of readability, and there was a joy to writing Python code,” he remembers ... did seem like the best option. “I basically thought ‘Well, why don’t I create my ...

Why? Python simply guzzles too much memory ... Van Rossum is also fan of Rust but he reckons Google-created Go is the most "Pythonic" of all the new languages.

Guido van Rossum, who created popular ... a key weakness of Python compared to faster languages like C++. Speed in the Core Python (CPython) is one of the reasons why other implementations ...