Syntax is utterly irrelevant. It's the most irrelevant thing you could be focusing on.

JAX and Triton compile your python code to incredibly fast GPU kernels. If you want to run pure python, then there are JIT based runtimes like Jython or PyPy that run your code faster.

What it boils down to is the fact that CPython is an incredibly slow runtime and CPython dominates due to interoperability with C extensions.

I don't know why, but I've seen a lot of people act as if the C language is some kind of voodoo thing as if C being fast is due to mere superstition. "Everyone knows C is the fastest, therefore C is the fastest" What you're doing is the equivalent of reading tea leaves or horoscopes or being an audiophile.