"Python is simply too slow, too bloated, and paradoxically too unwieldy for the new wave of developers. In fact, Chris Lattner, the inventor of LLVM, Clang, and Swift, had demonstrated that Python can be 35,000x slower than compiled languages - and that's why he invented the Mojo language as a Python alternative.<p>According to Chris Lattner, a compiled language could be 35,000x faster than Python.<p>That forces developers to push more and more application logic to natively compiled code, such as C, C++, and Rust. For example, highly popular projects like llama.cpp, whisper.cpp and llama2.c, are all written with zero Python dependency.<p>Greg Brockman is the co-founder and president of OpenAI. He, too, thinks that Python is too slow. <a href="https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1676726449934331904" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1676726449934331904</a>"<p>"In other words, Python is not only VERY slow but also hard to use for developing LLM applications."