I wish people would stop saying "C/C++" , these are 2 different languages.
Python* itself is written in C, not in Python. Which should give you clues to mediate and find your own answers.
*: Python, the canonical implementation.
Python* itself is written in C, not in Python. Which should give you clues to mediate and find your own answers.
*: Python, the canonical implementation.
That's disingenuous. C++ is largely a superset of C, to the point that a large C project such as gcc could be compiled with a C++ compiler without too much effort:
PyPy is written in Python and is much faster than CPython in a lot of cases, so I'm not sure the argument you're making here is valid. http://speed.pypy.org/
PyPy is written in a restricted subset of Python called RPython, which gets translated into C