Python is slow, garbage language!

• sunfish

  12 2,885 2.5 Python

  Sunfish: a Python Chess Engine in 111 lines of code

I'm currently working on a chess bot in C++. The literature and common sense tells you that faster is better, which was my main reason for choosing C++. Then I discovered Sunfish on GitHub that in around 400 lines of Python (without any low level libraries like ctypes) and it still beat me somewhat convincingly. It was definitely fast enough.

• NumPy

  272 26,360 10.0 Python

  The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.

  

Numpy is primarily C and C++: https://github.com/numpy/numpy

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