[claren]

The development of a (good) web-server in pure python likely still requires knowledge of language internals. If depending on libraries, it just depends on the libraries. Web frameworks with "Batteries included" seem rather rare on the C shore, though, maybe because statically compiled languages are in general not used as frequently in web-development. Therefor it's an unfair comparison.

To leverage C's power, libraries should also tend to stay general enough, too, no?

Most compilers or interpreters are complicated under the hood. Fixing a bug in the compiler to get your code working (and submitting a patch), that's mastery.