Definitely true for app and game development, not entirely true for systems and embedded programming. Python is not the best tool for the job in these context, obviously - a bytecode executable is always going to outperform Python.
But: Embedded has many aspects. Microcontrollers are becoming more powerful every day, and Python enables easy interfacing with the system without the labour overhead of a language like C. Similarly, in systems development, using Python to interface with standard functionality is actually fairly common - think of a lot of low-level sh scripts. Many of these are easily replaced by a more powerful Python script. Networking code in particular is also a common application for Python in spite of performance drawbacks.
It depends a lot on concrete use cases and the goals. Ultimately, much of this post boils down to "Python is slower than C" - which, while true, drops a lot of the other goals one might want to achieve in these contexts.
Definitely true for app and game development, not entirely true for systems and embedded programming. Python is not the best tool for the job in these context, obviously - a bytecode executable is always going to outperform Python.
But: Embedded has many aspects. Microcontrollers are becoming more powerful every day, and Python enables easy interfacing with the system without the labour overhead of a language like C. Similarly, in systems development, using Python to interface with standard functionality is actually fairly common - think of a lot of low-level sh scripts. Many of these are easily replaced by a more powerful Python script. Networking code in particular is also a common application for Python in spite of performance drawbacks.
It depends a lot on concrete use cases and the goals. Ultimately, much of this post boils down to "Python is slower than C" - which, while true, drops a lot of the other goals one might want to achieve in these contexts.
Thank you so much for the insight! I didn't know these things!
Yes I centered the whole post around "Python is slower than many languages out there"! 😅
You can make a binary executable with pyinstaller if you want python bytecode.