Comment by zmmmmm

Am losing count of all these efforts to rescue Python's performance - they all seem to amount to the same thing: it's not very hard to achieve this if you throw out fundamental aspects that make Python what it is. The premise is always that syntax is the barrier, and that people struggle so much to learn a new syntax that this is what keeps them using Python even though its performance is abysmal. But what if this isn't the right assumption? What if it's not the syntax but the ecosystem - and an ecosystem at that which highly depends on all the dynamic features to achieve what it does. Further than that, what about the assumption that people lacking confidence such that they blocked by learning another syntax are actually up for the challenge of understanding all the constraints and limitations of something that is something like but not quite real Python? These are exactly the people that you would expect to struggle with it.