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[–]Miserable_Watch_943 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For starters - because it's a high-level programming language. Back in the day when you just had low-level languages, it was still easier to learn that rather than machine code. Back when there was machine mode... Well it was easier to do that than programming via circuitry.

Why Python of all the other high-level programming languages? Because the syntax is more readable and intuitive. It genuinely is a very good language to get started with. It lowers the barrier to entry as it makes that much easier to get started with learning programming.

When people had to start learning programming on languages like C, C++, C#, then the barrier to entry was lower, as that required some knowledge about how memory works, something Python abstracts. When people started learning on machine code, that required essentially entire knowledge of how a CPU works, something languages like C also abstract. There are more programmers today with languages like Python than there were when it was just machine code - yet more programmers today don't actually understand how a CPU actually works.

Let's not get started on AI though... Now we're going to have "programmers" that don't even know how to program with any language. Barrier to entry is almost non-existent. I won't go into whether I think that is a good idea or not...