I try it every now and then. Unfortunately it's not that fast and struggles with binary packages, although that's getting better. It can also be a bit of a hurd

I try it every now and then. Unfortunately it's not that fast and struggles with binary packages, although that's getting better. It can also be a bit of a hurdle to install, although that's better nowadays too. For some cases, e.g. large scale string processing, it may bring substantial benefits. For e.g. numerical stuff with numpy usually not, and for that there are a lot faster options (e.g. numba). In the end Python is really slow, and even with PyPy it's usually slow to really slow. For other than numerical stuff it's better to usually go with e.g. Node.