"Building with Multiple Languages: A Python-First Approach" - Ramon Perez (PyCon AU 2025)

(Ramon Perez) Python is slow for certain tasks. That's not news. The usual response is to either accept the performance hit or rewrite everything in another language. There's a third option: use Python as the control centre and delegate specific tasks to languages that excel at them. This talk provides practical patterns for building polyglot applications. I'll show JavaScript handling real-time web interfaces, Rust rendering data visualisations, and C++ accelerating numerical computations—all orchestrated by Python. Through different short live demos and visual explanations, you'll learn when and how to integrate other languages without sacrificing Python's strengths, resulting in applications that are both fast and maintainable. https://pretalx.com/pycon-au-2025/talk/LASUCM/ python, pycon, australia, programming, conference, technical, developers, panel, sessions, libraries, frameworks, community, sysadmins, students, education, data, science Videos licensed as CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 PyCon AU is the national conference for the Python programming community, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers, sysadmins and operations folk, students, educators, scientists, statisticians, and many others besides, all with a love for working with Python. Licensed as CC BY-NC-SA - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Produced by Next Day Video Australia: https://nextdayvideo.com.au Sat Sep 13 11:20:00 2025 at Ballroom 3