> hmmm but how much of a performance gain is there from say CPython or even Go?
It depends on what you are doing.
If your python code is mainly calling out to highly optimized math routines, well, not much.
If you are doing lots of computationally intensive work, quite a bit.
If your Python code does a lot of allocating of memory, throws around lots of large objects, or has to parse a lot of inputs, then moving to a native language can be very beneficial.
> I am excited for Zig but careful in adopting new languages but if this takes off, what sort of changes might we see? Cheaper C/C++ programmers?
Newer more powerful languages tend to result in more complex software being written. Ignoring CPU and memory limits, no one would have been capable of writing a modern AAA game with the tools available back in 1992.
It depends on what you are doing.
If your python code is mainly calling out to highly optimized math routines, well, not much.
If you are doing lots of computationally intensive work, quite a bit.
If your Python code does a lot of allocating of memory, throws around lots of large objects, or has to parse a lot of inputs, then moving to a native language can be very beneficial.
> I am excited for Zig but careful in adopting new languages but if this takes off, what sort of changes might we see? Cheaper C/C++ programmers?
Newer more powerful languages tend to result in more complex software being written. Ignoring CPU and memory limits, no one would have been capable of writing a modern AAA game with the tools available back in 1992.