Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness ... or slow down extreme cases ...

Core Python (CPython) developer Mark Shannon shared details about the project to make Python faster at the ... to go back to my roots" and would work on Python's famed lack of performance.

It may seem odd to software developers working today, but the Python programming ... it makes up for in versatility. There are also major efforts underway to make Python faster.