NumPy is incredible to me: it serves not only as a critical bare-metal layer, but also an essential tool in its own right, and I can’t imagine using Python without it. I do numerical work—ML/data science/statistics—and I simply couldn’t accomplish any of what I do without the functionality provided by NumPy. np.array alone is worth all the king’s gold.

It is interesting to me that in many respects it serves as “guts”. I definitely drop down to use numpy directly with regularity. But it’s also possible to do 80-90% of the job without ever explicitly using the module itself. It’s baked in everywhere, to the point that it feels like just another standard library.

Exciting to see progress! Keep up the good work, numpy team :)