Consider Python and JavaScript, for example; two popular scripting languages that are both traditionally interpreted. In practice, JavaScript tends to be a lot faster than Python, not because of ...

In June for the first time, visits to Python-tagged questions edged past Java and JavaScript ... language and is actually growing faster year on year than in wealthy countries.

Pyston executes programs on average 20% to 50% faster than standard Python, according to Anaconda ... it hasn't got much of a presence in JavaScript-dominated web applications and mobile.