I can see the sudden jump in popularity for python alongside data science - it really is great for that.

My view is: python is great for offline tasks, like functional testing and training in machine learning - tasks that do not have huge, direct customer interaction. But to put something in production, please give me a strongly typed language with compiled binaries and no additional installations/VMs (and for me that's Go).

Yeah distribution is a _huge_ problem for python right now.

Is it though? I mean, yes there is fragmentation and lots of old documentation but that's because Python is 25 years old and several approaches have been tried.

What's especially difficult about the following two steps?

  pip install pyinstaller
  pyinstaller main.py

Nuitka compiles your Python code to C and leaves you with a single file binary. It also improves performance.