[simlan]

I am one of the likely millions of people that got sucked into python for its accessibility and powerful data manipulation libraries. Granted I started in the mid aughts with web scraping and other stupid endeavours. That user base growing out of matplotlib/numpy later pandas at a time when data literacy got more important is I think the major driver of its success now.

Also does not hurt that it was designed as a teaching language at first. Nowadays reading some of the code that is out there I feel like I have no idea what is going on. Type hints and that way some libraries use it makes my head spin sometimes...