Debugging gets way easier if you finish the C-to-Python transition, ripping out the last bit of Python. Having the interpreter running makes debugging way harde

Debugging gets way easier if you finish the C-to-Python transition, ripping out the last bit of Python. Having the interpreter running makes debugging way harder than it needs to be. Lose that, and suddenly you can take advantage of all sorts of powerful debugging tools. (valgrind, less-painful use of a standard debugger, -fsanitize= compiler options, C interpreters, coverity, etc.) Ditching the python also dramatically improves start-up latency.