Wait, Python was sexy at one point? The engineers I know who use python are all serious, pragmatic and a little OCD. They didn't learn Python because it was sexy, they learned it because it because it was an ultra-readable language.

I don't think Python was ever sexy. There was a bit of a Ruby vs. Python thing a few years ago, but both languages were downright old when they became popular.

A year ago, we had people telling us that JavaScript of all things is sexy because of NodeJS. Now it is Go (though that hype seems to be fading quickly).

People really need to stop worrying about the flavor of the week. You're never going to be programming in the sexy language for more than a couple years before the next trend pops up.