Since they’re already interpreted (compiled) code, they can later be executed directly by the Python interpreter without reinterpreting the original script.

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.

Compile a Python program for redistribution When you want to compile a Python program with Nuitka for redistribution, you can use a command-line switch, --standalone, that handles most of the work.

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 ...