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by notatallshaw 332 days ago
> is cheap

It's not even cheap, it's just possible to get companies to donate the resources to sustain it: https://dustingram.com/articles/2021/04/14/powering-the-pyth...

What it is is feasible, and IMO the alternative you're suggesting is infeasible under our current model of global economics without some kind of massive government funding.

> you're strongly incentivized to root your users simply because if you don't your competitors will

Python is not rooting it's users, this is hyperbole.