Python is compiled at "runtime" to a similar OS+arch byte-code minus ELF headers that Linux binaries typically have from gcc.

My point was it's a stupid distinction and worthless when the other points about poor implementations of common language frameworks are plenty on their own is all, and it's needlessly snobbish.

As far as class variable reference however I wish more languages self-referenced. In my eyes it makes it far clearer at a given line of code glance as to where the hell a value came from as opposed to just by name. I feel a keyword like self::variableName, or maybe more aptly &self as a pointer to reference in C++ would be very clear, like Rust does, which is very much, by the original definition, a programming language instead of scripting. Even Java, which is definitely not a scripting language though is still run inside a virtual machine, uses this. I don't personally like the term versus self, but eh.

Though if you want a hammer in a screw-driven world look no further than Electron. I think it puts anyone else's even purposeful attempts at such to shame.