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by pbiggar 5734 days ago
I think you're right about the popular language part. But also important is that it's popular amongst really talented hackers. By contrast, PHP is a million times more popular than Python, but has almost nobody building tools for it. The overlap between the type of people who like PHP and those who have the ability and desire to hack on tools for it, is very very small.