I think the issue with Python is that it is relatively underfunded compared to other languages of its size. The entire Python ecosystem lacks leadership. Packag

I think the issue with Python is that it is relatively underfunded compared to other languages of its size. The entire Python ecosystem lacks leadership. Packaging is a clusterfuck, Pypa today still doesn't contain package metadata (which massively slows down downstream resolvers like poetry and wastes terabytes of bandwidth every year). Non-security issues take forever to resolve. Nothing encourages parties to contribute, unlike Go or Rust. You end up with companies having their own subtly-imcompatible internal forks. The benevolent dictator never cared about performance until recently. Most of Python's changes have been simple syntactic sugar. Python as a compiler engineering project is an exercise in mediocrity compared to V8 or LuaJIT.