The reason why people don&#x27;t want you to ship your version of Python is that it takes a lot of space.  Lua makes that hurdle much easier.<p>For example my local Python venv is about 130 MB.  It symlinks in another 52 MB of standard Python libraries.  And I know it won&#x27;t run without some unknown amount of additional dependencies in C-libraries.  If I wanted to send that to someone I&#x27;m starting at 200 MB.  After compression that might be 40 MB or so.  You&#x27;re going to have to work to strip that down.<p>By comparison their download including Lua, code, and libraries is under 6 MB.<p>I have a minimal running Python application that was started recently and has done nothing.  It takes close to 90 MB of RAM just to start.<p>Theirs is generally under 10 MB while it is running.<p>So at every step Python requires 5-10 times as much data.  If you&#x27;re trying to get other people to put you in their containers, this can matter a lot.