Sure, runtimes exist and have engineering trade-offs. You avoid a whole class of memory related bugs but you lose a lot of control over memory allocation. You can do soft real-time as long as you manually manage the garbage collection and accept that there will be some (bounded) jitter on memory allocations.
The first rule of the tautology club is the first rule of the tautology club. Things have trade-offs. Python removes (or at least significantly reduces) a whole class of bugs that appear when using lower-level languages, that's part of why it's a good glue language.
The first rule of the tautology club is the first rule of the tautology club. Things have trade-offs. Python removes (or at least significantly reduces) a whole class of bugs that appear when using lower-level languages, that's part of why it's a good glue language.