I cast glances at it every time my company's Python services break because of a runtime error that could have been caught with a better type system, or because they ran out of memory and need bigger boxes, or another developer has to spend a week debugging their environment to get the complex web of dependencies aligned for five minutes, or my laptop strains under the weight of a dozen docker containers attempting to shield all those system-level dependencies from each other, or a deployment fails because of bad tooling/dependency-management

Not all languages are as bad as Python, and Rust comes with a lot of other costs. But it's very seductive to think about a world where you build a static binary with a single command, the build always works no matter what system it's on, the binary always works on the target OS regardless of what else is or isn't installed, it will use 1/10 the memory, and most likely it will never have any runtime errors because you were made to handle them all already

(I realize Go has at least some of these benefits, but its type system is hard for me to stomach)