I think "Yeah, that's good, but why not use X?" is Python's biggest problem right now. At this point, The Zen of Python has been absorbed into many late-gen pr

I think "Yeah, that's good, but why not use X?" is Python's biggest problem right now. At this point, The Zen of Python has been absorbed into many late-gen programming languages; it's easy to see a heavy Pythonic influence on Swift and Go, for example, and some languages, like Nim, even draw the parallel as a promotional thing. Sadly, the technical underpinnings of the Python runtime itself have not kept up, and it leaves people asking why they shouldn't just enjoy the same advantages they'd get with Python through a newer language with a modern implementation, providing better performance and package/dependency resolution. As much as it pains me to say it, even cutting-edge ECMAScript code can be made to look pretty Pythonic these days. Python will always hold a special place in my heart, but I'm not sure that a Python implementation is the obvious choice for a dynamic application anymore.