[AdamN]

The case I would make is that some of the libraries in Python are very fast and written in other languages (C, C++, etc...). With other languages that's more rare. For instance a Java application will probably use libraries that are all Java (or another JVM language).

The gotchas that I see with Python are that some really garbage code can work - that's more difficult in a language like Rust. The other nice thing about Python (aside from the fact that it can be very readable) is that devs rarely use threads and threads cause all sorts of race conditions - often when the performance of threading was never needed in the first place and the usage of them just added pointless complexity.