[tedmiston]

Short answer: Python is the best high-level, general purpose language. It's got a good following in web apps and APIs, data processing and research, and many other fields, as well as being the language of choice for many glue code projects and as a modern alternative to bash scripts.

I wrote a post that was popular on HN a few years ago thinking out loud about what Python is good at which received several comments on areas I missed too. The link in the HN thread [1] is dead but you can find the post at [2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9524607

[2]: http://web.archive.org/web/20161101070610/http://lisnr.com/b...