It's 10x slower at a lot of things, but even vanilla cpython is every bit as compiled as something like C#. Python is slow because of an extraordinary amount of

It's 10x slower at a lot of things, but even vanilla cpython is every bit as compiled as something like C#. Python is slow because of an extraordinary amount of runtime dynamism, because it doesn't have a JIT or many optimization passes, and because performance isn't a top concern of the project.