At a high level, I agree with what you're saying here - that it's difficult to compare rust or go with python. But I take some issue with your reasoning. > Af

At a high level, I agree with what you're saying here - that it's difficult to compare rust or go with python. But I take some issue with your reasoning. > After all python is still an interpreted scripting language. Is it? Or rather, is this even a well-defined category? > interpreted Can't any (OK, almost any) language be either interpreted or compiled? The fact that python is typically run in an interpretive runtime setting doesn't really make it "interpreted" as a language. In fact, since python is nearly always compiled to byte code at runtime, it's arguable just as compiled as it is interpreted. But that's not even the point: there's nothing lingual about python that stops it from being compiled. It can be compared with other languages that are typical run subsequent to a compilation step without being the apple to an orange. > scripting This one speaks to me even less. For python to properly be understood as a "scripting" language, I think you'd have to convince me that the lion's share of community energy is dedicated to a paradigm of running a single module front-to-back as a script. And this is clearly not so.