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Data science/AI people breathed a whole lot of life into Python. I'm curious where it would be if they had went elsewhere.

R for the ecosystem, Julia for the performance & future proofing.

What "future proofing"? It's not like Julia is "the future" it's just a contended, and it's not doing that good at that either...

Its adoption at banks and life science research labs tells another story.

Naturally if the community finally gathers around PyPy, that might change.

>Its adoption at banks and life science research labs tells another story.

In all 10 of the places it was adopted?

Compared to Python with the thousands of deployments "at banks and life science research labs" it's a no show....

Compared to UNIX with the thousands of deployments "at a couple of universities campus and hobbists" it's a no show....

Sure, though Python doesn't compete with UNIX, while it does with Julia for data science so not sure what the above is supposed to mean

(though, "competes" assumes Julia is getting anywhere close to Python's adoption in data science, but still)...

It is supposed to mean that if Linus had listened to these kind of opinions Linux had gone nowhere.