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Re:On Learning Rust and Go: Migrating Away from Python by codetrotter on Sunday March 24, 2019 @07:08AM (#19475656)
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.

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Re:On Learning Rust and Go: Migrating Away from Python by darkr on Sunday March 24, 2019 @08:42AM (#19476004)
CPython doesn't have a JIT. It compiles to bytecode, which is then "interpreted" by a stack based VM.
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