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		DanWaterworth on July 3, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Python slow There's PyPy. I think the problem with python is the community is especially resistant to breaking changes.

jerguismi on July 3, 2016 [–]

There's lot of python people who were very happily breaking the backwards compability in 3.0. However I guess majority of the comunity was not in that boat, but pretty big portion anyway.

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