It's such a laughable take. First of all a language is never getting popular simply because it's good. Actually most used languages are usually terrible.[0]

Secondly it's non factual. Python's market share grew in 2025[1][2][3]. Probably driven by AI demand.

[0]: even truer for natural languages.

[1]: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#most-popular...

[2]: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#most-popular...

[3]: https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html