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Probably the same reason Python is big in scientific computing. A lot of stuff has already been written for it. If scientists needed to bootstrap scientific computing from scratch, Python wouldn’t be any more established than Rust, Java, PHP, or VB6.

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Afaik pythons success in that field is relatively recent, only really taking of ~2010. The language was already 20 years old by then. Compare that to rusts first stable release in 2015.

Building ecosystem just takes time.

Python is easy to just start writing then the network effect made others use it

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