You are correct, but they have (1) all of the money in the world as the fundamental programming language of the Internet and as a result (2) they have a state o

You are correct, but they have (1) all of the money in the world as the fundamental programming language of the Internet and as a result (2) they have a state of the art tiered JIT for dynamic languages. The blood of countless PhD students flows through v8. I don't know if python will get the same treatment.