[datawarrior]

That's largely because Rekall is a fork of Volatility, not because Python was better suited to the task for both projects. Python is used heavily in security/forensics work so it was just a natural choice for the developers.

I'm not sure what your argument is otherwise. If there was a tool written in C or Rust to benchmark against then we could better argue which is better for the task. I don't think anyone said Python was "failing."

[dr_zoidberg]

My point is that both of them are big, succesful projects, written in Python, in contrast to hasenjs comment that anything that isn't "a small program being easy and quick (and pleasant) to write... fails in some way.".