There were some good comments to this question about Python popularity
Python is Turing-complete, wields a big library of almost 400000 packages+ that range from Frontend to Backend including web-desktop-mobile-server modules, reasonably performant and has a big community. So whats stopping it?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/ux29bg/what_stops_python_from_taking_over_everything_else/
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