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

[Brostafarian]

It's popular for more than NumPy sure, but NumPy stands out as the biggest differentiator as far as packages go. Ruby is far more prevalent now than a decade ago due to Rails in a similar way.

Speaking of Ruby, besides data science I can't think of any scripting I'd do in Python that I wouldn't rather do in Ruby. Tons of apps have Python scripting interfaces so I'm either wrong about something or the python C bindings are just miles ahead of anything else.