I largely agree with what you said but > there's nothing lingual about python th...

codetrotter on March 24, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: On Learning Rust and Go: Migrating Away from Pytho...

I largely agree with what you said but

> there's nothing lingual about python that stops it from being compiled

Are you sure? Python is a very dynamic language. Some of the most dynamic parts of python might not be possible to compile fully ahead of time and might need to be JITed, because the behavior of the code will only be possible to determine at runtime.

darkr on March 24, 2019 [–]

CPython doesn't have a JIT. It compiles to bytecode, which is then "interpreted" by a stack based VM.