How about instead aiming for 1000x as fast, so that it's as fast as a statically-typed language? (Google's pure Python Protobuf implementation is literally 1000x slower than their Python front-end that wraps the C++ Protobuf library...)

Oh wait, achieving native speed is close to impossible for a dynamically-typed language.

Why bother when nim already exists?

turbinerneiter

Nim doesn't make existing python vide bases faster.

Also, do you really think the Python team should just give up on performance just because faster languages exist?

Should Tesla stop building cars as soon as someone builds a faster car than them?

planetis

Actually it is possible, Nim compiles to C and is a viable alternative to CPython.

nimpy https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy PyGotham talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVgNVJdizHg another blog post: https://robert-mcdermott.gitlab.io/posts/speeding-up-python-...