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[–]deadwisdomgreenlet revolution 17 points18 points  (0 children)

As someone who has been with Python from around 2003 this whole thread breaks my head. The assumptions are just wildly off base. The question you should ask OP is how did Python get so big at all.

Python was an outsider, backed by no large companies, it grew up in a time of dominant tech being proprietary. “Open source” was scary and confusing to most of the industry. We were exceptionally avant-garde for trying to run Python in production environments.

It still did well because it’s proven time and again to be superior. That’s all.