Sure. I have a HPC background, I get paid for not wasting CPU hours. Nobody prevents you from putting any Turing complete language beyond what it was originally

Sure. I have a HPC background, I get paid for not wasting CPU hours. Nobody prevents you from putting any Turing complete language beyond what it was originally done for. Python is by design not a language for number crunching. There exist great libraries like Numpy which turn it to an amazing steering machine for number crunching (which is however ultimately done in performant low level C/Fortran code). The same applies for basically any other scripting language.