Can anyone explain to me why BIP reference code is written in Python?

Why isn't it C++ at least?

Python is NOT the easiest language to set up to run on most linux distros either, compared to C++, which is part of every distro's `build-essential` or `base-devel` or similar.

The Python 2 vs 3 saga continues, also, that's been going on since I first started using linux regularly in 1999.