2020! I wonder if I'll have more luck finding the time to upgrade my python 2 scripts in the next four years than I've had in the last four?
There were faster languages (and probably more 'parallel-aware' languages - it's not an area I'm very knowledgeable about) before Python but that wasn't the reason it took off. It's fairly unlikely to be the reason it dies off either.
Python remains one of the most humane languages out there and that's a quality that is much more intangible and hard to replicate.
Glancing at the code samples, I don't hate it. It looks rather pleasant.
I can't fathom