2025-04-27 – 17:50-18:15 (Africa/Abidjan), Barn
Python is the biggest programming language in the world. According to the TIOBE index, it is more than 10% ahead of its closest competitor (C++). It is the 800 pound gorilla in the programming language world, used in some of the largest systems on the biggest networks in tech.
But all that success comes along with … overhead. In this talk I will discuss the ways that Python can scale back down to a smaller size along various axes, and the reasons why it needs to, if we want it to continue to survive.
