I use Python 90% of my day and I can't say I like it or hate it or care about it at all. I use it because it has all the libraries I need, and LLMs seem to know it pretty well too. It's a great language for people that don't actually care about programming languages and just want to get stuff done.

And slow code, yes it has cross my mind.

Usually they also call Python to libraries that are 95% C code.

The hypocrisy gets even worse: the C code then gets compiled to assembly!

Except C developers actually acknowledge that, they don't call libraries written in Assembly, C code.

Sure they do.

https://github.com/OpenMathLib/OpenBLAS https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg

Plenty of assembly in those projects but no mention of it in the README. Most C projects don't acknowledge the assembly they use.