Interesting that you are down voted. I agree with you that 20% faster is really nothing in comparison to the many new languages. I was saddened by the path Python3 chose. If compatibility was already broken at the time, they should have designed something with performance in mind from the beginning. The V8 javascript engine was there. We knew things could get >10X faster with JIT. Python is too big to die, but it is an inferior programming language in many ways.