s/Gradle/Graal/? In the case of python it's clear that the heavy reliance on c extensions is a blessing and a curse: it's kept python relevant in communities l

s/Gradle/Graal/? In the case of python it's clear that the heavy reliance on c extensions is a blessing and a curse: it's kept python relevant in communities like science even though it isn't very fast. However one of the lessons of Graal seems to be that such extensions can seriously prohibit improving performance, since they are opaque to JITs. There's a few talks by Chris Seaton (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLtjkP9bD_U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLtjkP9bD_U) on the topic.