[mixmastamyk]

I see, thought it was the main point, but there were others...

> but it is slow to start

This is not really true either. Sure not as fast as C, but imperceptible for the most part. And they have improved it in recent versions.

Yes, you can cause it be an issue with a poorly written or though out system, this happened at one job I had. But that wasn't Python's fault they decided to pull in thousands of files each invocation.

My Python scripts respond instantly, even big ones. I have a CLI photo editor and implementation lang is not an issue that I even contemplated until now.

> and projects using it are prone towards difficult to read/messy code.

Primarily large ones with a long history of alternating developers. There are great tools to improve its scalability; use them. The simple pyflakes will eliminate most issues. Type checking gets the long tail for the mission-important+.