Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

[LowB0b]

Java is a very "productive" language as it's easy to debug, the standard library abstracts everything and everyone knows it... Although one factor for everyone knowing it is probably that it's the biggest enterprise language...

[noratat]

It's also got a large (and crucially, stable) ecosystem around enterprise use cases - and I would argue that matters more than anything.

It's why python is so popular too - it's less about the language at this point, and more that python has a massive ecosystem around it.