Sugar, and more generally the idea of using 2006-era Python to write an entire userland on a device with a pokey CPU and limited RAM, was a huge part of why OLP

Sugar, and more generally the idea of using 2006-era Python to write an entire userland on a device with a pokey CPU and limited RAM, was a huge part of why OLPCs were unbearably slow to use. For all the hypothetical benefits it was a catastrophically poor decision that seriously undermined everything great about the hardware design of the XO-1.