Comment by abuckenheimer

FWIW no one who replied to this email thread said something even close to "no". Victor Stinner points out that startup time is something that comes up a lot and mentions some recent work in the area [1].

Python is a big ship, it may not be as nimble as a young FOSS project but it is always improving and investments in things like start up time pays dividends to a large ecosystem.

[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-May/153300...