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Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages
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I hate these kinds of comments that have no other purpose than to sling shit and start arguments.
Since this is a programming community (and giving you the benefit of the doubt, I assume you're not a vibe coder), you know your argument is nonsense. Writing something in Python doesn't automatically make it slow or use a lot of RAM or whatever. Synapse is shitty because Synapse is shitty. You can write slow and inefficient software in any language, and it feels really tedious to type this out because it's obvious and common sense.
Your entire comment adds nothing, like 0 value. I provided two counter examples of verifiable, publicly available, familiar to tech people and programmers projects people can inspect now. Your comment doesn't even bother to bring something real, an LLM could put together a better counter argument by actually inspecting the github repos.
I get the feeling you are wasting everyone's time and you have no idea what are you talking about. Show us your cooler projects?
Yes, but you can't write snappy fast software in any language, high level languages like python, lua and php carry alot of overhead from the get go, because of dynamic typing, heavy abstractions, and heavy garbage collectors.