> I'm not a big user of Python, but it seems to me that any language that requires you to embed a different language for performance is inherently broken. It s

> I'm not a big user of Python, but it seems to me that any language that requires you to embed a different language for performance is inherently broken. It seems like you imply both of those things, though perhaps not as explicit as "Python is broken because ctypes are required", which you did not say.