Basically, the entire data and language processing world works in Python.

It's not that tools don't exist in other languages. It's that Python has the most readily available tooling. That makes analysis and iteration a lot easier.

> Basically, the entire data and language processing world works in Python.

Dunno, when I started I learned Stata, but it seemed the big open-source thing was R. Python data stuff was in its infancy. R got huge, then Python got huge. Of course all the underlying libraries are C/C++ or Fortran. Everything does exist in Ruby as well.

But hey, I also just hate Python (find it super complicated to set up, their package managers are terrible, plus find the language inconsistent) so I avoid it at all costs. Would much rather Julia become the de-facto standard.