I've long heralded this as some of the most attractive things about interpreted languages like Python and friends, and what really draws me to them in the first

I've long heralded this as some of the most attractive things about interpreted languages like Python and friends, and what really draws me to them in the first place. Take parsing a config file - it doesn't need to be fast unless it's truly in your hot path and you're doing millions of them. I like not having to worry about memory management when it comes to them. On the other hand if I have a hot path/slow operation having the ability to compile a library to do the heavy lifting and gluing it together in a higher-level language means that you spend a lot less time fighting your language and a lot more time solving your problems.