Nothing of that is a sales pitch for me.

Compiled managed languages are fast enough for all kinds of workloads I work on.

Also I am polyglot since the days of Timex 2068, so a little bit of FFI isn't an issue. No need to throw away the productivity tooling of the baby with the water.

Finally, as someone coding since the 8 bit home computer days, the religious discussion of static linking belongs into the same basket as using an i9 with a NVidia RTX to power a UNIX System V like command line experience, or reliving the glory days of curses, Clipper, FoxPro or Turbo Vision applications in 2025.