alt Hacker NewsImplying that existence of your tool of preference in another programming language makes other equally impressive tools something akin to "[colossal] mistake that we'll pay for for years" "simply motivated by inertia" is way below the level of discussion I would expect from Hacker News.
To be fair, your comment didn't add much either.
Their main criticisms of Python were:
> it is slow, its type system is significantly harder to use than other languages, and it's hard to distribute
Your comment would have been more useful if it had discussed how FastAPI addresses these issues.