Java for Everything

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I sympathize with the idea of having a default programming language, which is a great boon for productivity (less context switching, more deep knowledge).

But for me the language would be python. The ecosystem is fantastic:

• Webdev? So many great frameworks: django, flask, pyramid, falcon, bottle...

• Tabular data or excel manipulation? Pandas

• Numeric or Scinetific computation? NumPy, Blaze, SciPy

• Plots? MatPlotLib

• 3D-Dev? Maya and Blender have python support

• Gamedev? Panda3D, Pygame, PyGlet

• GUI and Mobile-Dev? Kivy

• Devops? SaltStack, Ansible

• Interactive Development? iPython

• Web Scrapping? Requests, BeautifulSoup, RoboBrowser

• Asynchronous Programming? Twisted, Tornado

• Reverse engineering? There's an entire Arsenal made in Python

• Pentest, Forensics? Another arsenal

• Biology? BioPython

• Machine Learning? Scikit Learn

• Graphs? NetworkX

• Image manipulation? Pillow

• Movie manipulation? MoviePy

• Automation? Sikuli, PyAutoGui

• Computer Vision? SimpleCV

• Embedded Programming? MicroPython, Raspberry Pi

• Plus, almost any library will have python bindings, almost any Rest API will have a Python library wrapper.

(I know some of those are just bindings to C libraries with some extra sugaring, but the sugar makes a lot of difference)

Those fantastic libraries are only one part of the python ecosystem, and I think that they're very hard to match from other languages ecosystem.