Newly discovered campaign takes advantage of the fact that most vulnerability scanning tools don't read compiled open-source software. Attackers who are targeting open-source package repositories like ...

So too is Fortran. C# and Java are almost always going to be compiled to bytecode and then JIT compiled at runtime. Python and Ruby are almost always going to be interpreted.

You can use Nuitka to compile Python programs to standalone executables, then redistribute them without the Python runtime.

Yes it can. In fact, many high-level languages are compiled like that including Common Lisp, Scheme, OCaml, and Haskell. But you have to keep something in mind: C is not all that fast. Rather, C is ...