I thought this presentation by Armin Ronacher (the creator of Flask and Jinja) was very enlightening: How Python was Shaped by leaky Internals(2016): https://

I thought this presentation by Armin Ronacher (the creator of Flask and Jinja) was very enlightening: How Python was Shaped by leaky Internals(2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCGofLIzX6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCGofLIzX6g See also this HN post (Attempts to make Python fast): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24848318 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24848318