I personally think Python is nice to work with and I really like Django as monolithic web framework with no dependencies- a rare thing these days. But when thinking about long term projects I’m unable to reconcile things I like with the fact that Python is among the slowest modern languages. Why would I start with an unnecessary handicap?
Every month or so I look around to see if there's a monolithic web framework in languages I'm interested that are effectively equivalents of Django, Rails, Laravel, etc. I've done a lot of non-webapp stuff with Go, for example, and would like to build full fledged webapps with a Django-like framework in Go. But nothing like that truly exists. I've found projects like Buffalo [0] that promise this monolithic experience, but they're still very much works in progress. Even Node lacks such a true monolithic web framework from what I can tell.