For Python versus other languages, the place where it really gets interesting is that the unit time per solution is lower than it is with languages like Java, C++ or C. Yeah, it’s interpreted (ish).

In practice, JavaScript tends to be a lot faster than Python, not because of any feature of the languages themselves—they're broadly comparable in terms of expressiveness and capabilities—but ...

Why making Python faster isn’t easy Python’s performance has little to do with being an interpreted language, as opposed to one compiled ahead of time to native machine code.

A study conducted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) put Python at the top of the list of favorite languages among such contenders as Java, JavaScript, C++, and Go.