&gt; We&#x27;re past that point. PyPy is the future. CPython is the past.<p>CPython is the past and is the present, and the future you can&#x27;t predict. However, if you try to extrapolate, you should perhaps consider as much historical context as possible. For instance, why is Python what it is? Is it speed? I think it is the accessibility of language syntax, design and features. CPython is the base of this language evolution, and PyPy is improving just speed. So I would extrapolate CPython to always be more popular.<p>Go exists because someone at Google wanted to make better C and C++, a statically typed language. It doesn&#x27;t have much to do with Python. Google always preferred C++ and Java to python because of static typing, not just because of speed.<p>Overall, I think it&#x27;s a mistake to fixate so much on speed of execution, when often times speed of development is considered more important. This niche is never going away, despite of how hard some people hammer square pegs in round holes.