Show HN: Fast C-based HTML 5 parsing for Python
Python: interactive glue language between high performance C libraries. It's funny how we have converged on this solution, I use it daily so I'm really not complaining but I really didn't see this as one of the logical outcomes of the various programming language streams.<p>But when you think about it it is kind of logical: inner loops and low level code tend to be fairly static and are often re-used so it pays of to write them in a language that maximizes for that use-case, but structure can be executed much slower and re-use is relatively low when going from one application to the next so it pays of to write that in another language.<p>So we get this split roughly halfway down the application stack where we switch from interactive and interpreted high level language to compiled low level language.<p>It's a very interesting optimum.