Well it's basically Visual Basic for adacemics and it excels at that. Aside from it's obvious problem: Python is a very practical, though almost generic language, with a rich collection of useful libraries -- so why not?
It's also the better shellscript for administrators. And user-friendly, like basic. It excels on many fronts. The surprise is more that it took so long to reach that point, considering how old and widely used it is.
There is no large tech company heavily promoting it.
Nowadays, I guess they are promoting it the area of ML, with libraries such as TF and PyTorch.
That's its biggest strength.
That's a great point! It was invented somewhere in the late 90s, no? So maybe it was a confluence of alot of things that broke it out finally.
1990.
Wow, nice! I didn't know it went back THAT far. Pretty cool actually.
Looks like they only started counting Visual Basic in 2010 which accounts for it's steep rise it seems. But it's obviously very popular otherwise.