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C and Rust compile to native code. Python doesn't. It's either interpreted, or run in an abstract machine (VM). Python was never really intended to interact with the actual hardware directly.

I mean, you could, there's no real technical blocker, but it'd be horribly slow. Plus many failure modes of touching hardware are very likely to break the VM process and make debugging very challenging



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