[BeetleB]

> It's a language which had a reason to exist 25 years ago, but has since been surpassed in every way by other faster, more robust, more compatible languages that don't have such quirky syntax.

The same could be said about C++, but yet, here we are. Stroustrop's quip comes to mind: "There are languages people complain about, and languages no one uses". Just look at how much people complain about JS.

I don't know how old people here are, but from the early 2000's till probably the mid 2010's, Python really was the great language, with few alternatives - at least when you consider the libraries available for it.

It's not an accident that people began using it heavily for numerical computing. The only viable alternative at the time was MATLAB.