It's weird. At a time I was looking for a "better" python. Something simpler and safer than C/C++ but faster than python and more importantly that can produce a single binary. So I looked at everything from Rust to obscure language like Hare.

Go should have been the obvious choice but for a reason I don't understand I dislike its syntax. For Rust I understand: it uses a lot of special characters that aren't easy to remember and to type with a non qwerty keyboards (plus other unrelated pain points). For the different lisp, it was the parenthesis and the reverse polish notation. But for Go, I'm unable to rationalize why I don't like it.

For the anecdote, I settled on compiling my python code with nuitka. No speed gain that I'm aware of but I can now provides a binary. I'm also looking more and more at C# because of its progressing AOT compilation and although I dislike the verbosity of its base mode and the fact it's so tied to windows.

I liked a lot nim and crystal but the small community was a barrier, although I'm really impressed by what nim is managing to do with such a small community and it may me think it's an excellent language

(I will try to motivate myself to pick up one of the language I mentionned above also)

>and the fact it's so tied to windows

Dotnet Core is not tied to windows except for certain frameworks like wpf (and there are alternatives for it that work everywhere), credential store.

And it's actually really good to use these days.

Nuitka is compatible, but comes with the shortcomings of python C-API

There are other approaches which give up on C-API and build a bridge to languages such as Go and Rust.

I've spent a few years working on py2many. Would appreciate feedback on the approach.