You don't hear about it because one can't "patch things in haste" to fix performance issues caused by choosing the wrong programming language for the problem at

You don't hear about it because one can't "patch things in haste" to fix performance issues caused by choosing the wrong programming language for the problem at hand. Instead one hears complaints about Python's GIL, hears about people moving to golang, about this new thing called Rust, about a C and C++ resurgence and so on.