can't disagree (a tradeoff).
edit: you've removed a line while I was resonding like: "maybe go is a sweet-spot"
I think if you are looking to replace python as a runtime you'd maybe be better off arguing for safety, python is much more easily corruptible so if maybe you don't trust your machine(s) you are training on and don't want to be mislead by someone hacking your initializations then arguably running a compiled program with certain guarantees is safer.
D'oh! Yea that changes things. I would be considering UI integration from the inference side.