Python is for all intents and purposes a "glue" language. You don't do the heavy computing in Python, you just pull in a C++ library that has a Python interface

Python is for all intents and purposes a "glue" language. You don't do the heavy computing in Python, you just pull in a C++ library that has a Python interface. This adds a ton of friction because these dependencies will often not be precompiled so you need to have the right system libraries to build the module before using it. It's not much of a problem for other stacks because they either are fast enough that they have a library written in the same language for problem X (C#/Java/Rust) or they aren't targeting the same type of work (JS, Ruby, etc...). C++ has the exact same problem as Python and I'd argue that it's even worse.