Python startup time: milliseconds matter
I have to say that my first reaction was: &quot;maybe you shouldn&#x27;t use python for this, then&quot;.  If you are using a language in a way that it gets worse in subsequent versions, that&#x27;s a good sign that they&#x27;re optimizing for something other than what you care about.<p>The programming language R does not, as I understand it, optimize for speed, because they are optimizing for ease of exploratory data analysis.  R is growing quite rapidly.  So is python, actually.  It doesn&#x27;t mean that either one is good at everything, and it&#x27;s probably the case that both are growing because they don&#x27;t try to be good at everything.  A good toolbox is better than a multi-tool.