Are the critiques in "All the things I hate about Python" valid?

[Bill]

boB Stepp wrote:
> This article is written by Nathan Murthy, a staff software engineer at
> Tesla.  The article is found at:
> https://medium.com/@natemurthy/all-the-things-i-hate-about-python-5c5ff5fda95e
>
> Apparently he chose his article title as "click bait".  Apparently he
> does not really hate Python (So he says.).  His leader paragraph is:
>
> "Python is viewed as a ubiquitous programming language; however, its
> design limits its potential as a reliable and high performance systems
> language.

Python is simply not a high performance system language, but it has 
other virtues. You would not likely choose Python for a sophisticated 
distributed computing application, but not everyone needs to write a 
sophisticated distributed computing application.  I believe those that 
do, will be conscientious enough to choose an appropriate tool.




> Unfortunately, not every developer is aware of its
> limitations."
>
> As I currently do not have the necessary technical knowledge to
> properly evaluate his claims, I thought I would ask those of you who
> do.  I have neither the knowledge or boB-hours to write a large
> distributed system code base, but I am curious if Python is truly
> limited for doing these in the ways he claims.
>
> BTW, I am not trying to start (another) heated, emotional thread.  You
> guys do sometimes get carried away!  I honestly just what to know the
> truth of the matters out of my continuing to learn Python.  I suspect
> there is probably some truth in his claims, but I am not sure if he is
> taking things out of their proper application contexts or not.
>
> Thanks!