It's been said that Python's greatest superpower is that it's the second-best language at the most stuff.
No one's really developed an ecosystem for a language that's more performant that can match it, and that's all it needs to assert dominance.
No one's really developed an ecosystem for a language that's more performant that can match it, and that's all it needs to assert dominance.
But it can do them well enough, and enough people know it that they can drag a solution across the line in most domains.