Python grew organically. People will use whatever addresses their pains or allows them to solve their problems.
More often than not the _perceived_ problem is not performance or memory safety.
More often than not the _perceived_ problem is not performance or memory safety.
As opposed to Rust?
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Dropbox, Cloudflare, Meta. This is a list of companies I could think of quickly, that don't just "use Rust" they are "heavily invested in Rust".
If this isn't "massive industry adoption", its not clear what is.
A) Get lucky.
B) Be the only choice.
C) Get a massive corporation to back you.
Otherwise you can't ride the network effect to the fullest.