Yep, Python is just a plain, boring interpreted language from the 80s that was designed as a reaction to Perl's syntax, and is unfortunate enough to contain a l

Yep, Python is just a plain, boring interpreted language from the 80s that was designed as a reaction to Perl's syntax, and is unfortunate enough to contain a lot of dynamic properties that designing a JIT compiler for it is a massive amount of work. It can be seen in context with interpreted languages during that time such as Perl, Tcl, awk, sed, etc. It became popular because it was baby's first language taught in universities to both CS and non-CS majors. Python is simply not competitive in terms of language features with modern programming languages. I tend to assume most of the people praising Python are amateur or new programmers.