> Never has an old language gained traction, its all about the initial network effects created by excitement.

Python?! Created in 1991, became increasingly popular – especially in university circles – only in the mid-2000s, and then completely exploded thanks to the ML/DL boom of the 2010s. That boom fed back into programming training, and it's now a very popular first language too.

Love it or hate it, Python was a teenager by the time it properly took off.