Good C bindings and a willingness to accept that it wasn't ever going to be good at doing low level fast code are an underrated facet of how python grew so popu

Good C bindings and a willingness to accept that it wasn't ever going to be good at doing low level fast code are an underrated facet of how python grew so popular. Golang, by contrast, is really quite schizophrenic sometimes about whether it wants to be a high or low level language.