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Thing is, there are many languages expressive as Python, while providing compilation to native code without having to search for additional tooling.

No need to sacrifice performance for productivity.

Care to name some examples?

Lisp, Scheme, Dylan[1], Smalltalk, JavaScript, Prolog.

[1] - Yeah, I know it is dead now, just wanted to mention it anyway.

Is Prolog known for it's performance?

Well, it beats Python, given that most well known implementations do have JIT compilers.