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by aidos 3643 days ago
Because the libraries keep people on Python and you'd need to support all those too.

Edit to add, my understanding is that the flexible nature of Python makes it hard to swap out the python without implementing all the stuff that makes it flexible. In a way I guess pypy is the python you're talking about. And it does exist, and is faster, but doesn't support all libraries.