The embedded systems I work on use shared libraries, C++, shell scripts, and even Adobe Flash. Dynamic linking has been around since the 1960s, and is the mode

The embedded systems I work on use shared libraries, C++, shell scripts, and even Adobe Flash. Dynamic linking has been around since the 1960s, and is the model that has been used by almost all currently active developers for their entire careers. Arguments based around specialized microcontrollers, hard real-time systems, life-or-death control systems, etc. are off in the woods. Few developers use such systems in the real world, and their code is statistically irrelevant to comparisons between e.g. Python and C.