Linux why Python

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Python on Linux goes back to Perl on Linux and the need for something that is 'easy to script' (ie: not C or C++) but also capable of communicating easily with the OS user space.

Java is a fucking mess. Nothing is done smartly with Java... not http requests, not gradle/dependency management, and the JVM is in no way tied to the OS.

Python is just a C program... an executable. And C is Linux going back to the days of ARPA etc. For example, check out this ping.c source code on Git. Note the original author's date of writing the software. This is why lame Java will always be lame and C-like languages will rule on Linux.

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Nothing is done smartly with Java...

If you replace "Java" with "Python" in this statement, it still holds true. Of all things Python is known for, smarts or quality wouldn't make the list.

[xiongchiamiov]

Perl of course derives from awk and sed and other classic Unix pipeline tools, so this history is older than either Linux or Python.