[Sharlin]

Once you start putting "systems programming" and "Python" in the same sentence you can be pretty sure that the term "systems programming" has lost all meaning. Or at least using it without elaborating is only going to end up in confusion.

[stmw]

Python is for systems programming like your fist is for hammering nails -- it will be slow, and there will be blood.

[sriram_malhar]

Perhaps one could say that about systems programming languages as well, including Rust. It'll be slow(er) to develop, and there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

The word "systems" is increasingly relegated to a smaller fraction of the codespace than used to be; one wouldn't have considered building a high frequency trading system or a call handling system in a non C/C++ language in the mid 90's, but Java and Erlang get the job done well enough.

As always Alan Perlis said it best (in his "epigrams of programming"): A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant!

[nikolay]

Very nicely put!