[0] The article says "Python has gotten nearly 50% faster in less than four years", but the original goal was a 5x speedup in the same timeframe [https://github.com/markshannon/faster-cpython/blob/master/pl...].

But the latest PyPy supports all of Python 3.12 and it is just as fast with C ffi code as JIT Python code. It is literally magic and if it was more popular Python would not have a reputation for being slow.

Python is probably the only programming language community that has been so much against JITs, and where folks routinely call C libraries bindings, "Python".

I know Ars Technica has a guy who can go deep into how a security attack works. That's the only one I am aware of from a well-known publication. Even so, if you look at the comment section, most people have no clue about technical details and are just talking about the story.

Also bear in mind -- media in general is not a good industry to be in. Making money out of writing news articles is getting increasingly difficult. Most articles try to optimize for reach and clicks. Something like this one is not going to attract a lot of readers. I have no idea how LWN can be sustainable, but I can assure you that it's the exception, not the norm.

Other than LWN, your best bet is reading this from someone's blog, who spends hours writing about it, trying to explain it in an understandable way and avoid mistakes, expecting almost nothing in return, just as a hobby.

Your next best bet is reading someone's 12 disjointed tweets, possibly riddled with errors.

That's just the world we are living in.

The experience lead me to avoid any language without JIT or AOT, unless forced upon me.

Hence why I have used Python since version 1.6 only for OS scripting tasks.

I've considered dropping the outer quotes and using CSS before/after text to add them back in to the rendered page, but we have a huge back-catalog of articles doing it this way, and it's usually not much of an issue.