Introduction

Python is a very popular programming language especially in data science, partially because it’s easy to write and read. However, it does come with a cost: python can be slow. Have been using python for a few years now, but I find myself more interested in a compiled language, which can be really fast, with the cost of more developing time and possibly distracted for data-analysis task. Language design and features are usually just trade-offs — develop efficiency or runtime speed, power or safety, etc., choose one. There are some languages mainly for data analysis that are really fast as…