Comment by IshKebab

I agree. They got some things right - the indentation based syntax is quite approachable even if it breaks down quite quickly (e.g. `lambda`), and infinite precision integers are fantastic.

But it's soooooo slow, tooling was abysmal until uv came on the scene (which some people still don't use), it has a ton of old janky APIs, and features like implicit bool coercion.

I wish there was a popular scripting language that was good. Modern robust semantics, infinite precision integers, static typing, good tooling, easy to embed. As far as I can tell it doesn't exist. Roto is the closest I've seen but it's moderately domain specific and doesn't have arbitrary precision integers.