[dogweather]

I believe it's due to consistently good performance over the years:

* The outstanding documentation site.

* Execution speed for an interpreted language.

* Highly transparent language evolution, managed by the nonprofit Python Foundation.

* Semantic versioning.

* Core developer communication is in English.

* Excellent module definition and import system.

* Culture of explicitness, not implicitness.

The ecosystem has a few huge weaknesses (e.g. packaging and dependency management) which put me off for the most part. But the strengths seem to be overwhelming enough to put Python on a success trajectory.

[geoalchimista]

> * Core developer communication is in English.

Just curious, is there any popular programming language whose core developers communicate in a language other than English?