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At what point do we make a language that’s syntactically identical to Python, but designed from the ground up to have better performance and threading support and just have projects that want performance + Python syntax to that, because clearly the current Python is flailing at multiple goals at once and achieving none of them.

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This has been done! Many times, most recently with Mojo. It sounds like you're the target user but don't use them, so if you're interested you could help them out by telling them specifically how they don't meet your needs

Nah I’ve given up on Python wholesale these days, and don’t operate in AI stuff anymore either, so not a lot of need for any of the current Python specific libs. Basically everything I write for work or hobby is all Rust now , but I’ve written more than enough Python that I’m still interested enough to follow the developments from a distance. :)

Yep. The .NET and JVM versions also had hopes about eventual CPython-overtaking speed back in the day.

The problem was never the language (see PyPy), but the C-extensions.

Imagine if one could eliminate the need for C-extensions in the first place.

People don't want to eliminate the C extensions. People don't want to reimplement working C code, especially when even a "fast" language in the style of python cannot really achieve C speeds.

The simple fact is that performance is not a sufficiently important problem for the domain Python works it. At least not important enough to give up its dynamicism.

Sounds like an argument for Starlark perhaps?

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