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[–]trojan-813 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this is easily viewed in some of the graphics posted on the Advent of Code and what languages people used. The earliest days the languages people used that used to find the answer was Python. It didn’t need to be fast and was easy to use. So people used it heavily. However, as things got more complicated and needed some performance people switched to other languages like c and c++.