Python and the need for speed

[Mikhail V]

On 11 April 2017 at 16:56, Steve D'Aprano <steve+python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 07:56 pm, Brecht Machiels wrote:
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>> DropBox and
>> Google seem to agree that there are no good solutions, since they are
>> moving to Go.
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> That's a good solution! Maybe we should be writing extensions in Go, instead
> of C. Or for maths-heavy work, using extensions written in Julia.

Just my curiosity, I've always been intersted in such question: are devs
still writing extensions in C, I mean type in C code? Aren't they using
some translator or IDE which at lest hides the brackets and semicolons?
I personally don't have problems with understanding low-level
concepts of programming, but I find it pretty hard to see
through the mangroves of brackets, asterisks and Co.


Mikhail