The language is very similar to Python so it's extremely easy to learn for many people.
This language is used as a configuration language for the Bazel build system [2]. Ensuring that scripts will run is a very nice property for configuration languages, giving a nice balance between flexibility and sanity.
I would love to have a similar configuration language but based on Clojure instead of Python.
[1] https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/skylark/language.ht... [2] https://bazel.build/