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Yeah, I can see that. At the time of the talk Feldman claims Python is a slow-and-steady language. It definitely did get a lot of support from the scientific/engineering community for a long time. I spent a good part of my career with Python from about 2006-2016.

It had boosts from Django... but it never had Rails' level of popularity. You kinda have to be first-to-market and that good to get the "killer app" effect.

It's also been integrated as the scripting language for several popular software pacakges (Blender comes to mind).

Machine learning and now... "AI"; seems to be a market cornered by Python quite a bit.





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