It doesn't need to be compiled. The writer just says that a tool should be future-proof. And future does not mean 18 months, but 10 or 20 years. Python makes th

It doesn't need to be compiled. The writer just says that a tool should be future-proof. And future does not mean 18 months, but 10 or 20 years. Python makes this rather hard, and has no real culture around this. And it's true, python-code has a relative high maintenance-cost and deployment is still one of the dominating complains. But I would say this is just the cost that comes with the low entry and fast development. There are other ways than compiling stuff, some are used today, some others are developing slowly. But at the moment python is really not at the point where long term-availability is a big target.