I would argue that the libraries, and specifically NumPy, are the reason Python is still in the picture today.

It will be interesting to see, moving forward, what languages survive. A 15% perf increase seems nice, until you realize that you get a 10x increase porting to Rust (and the AI does it for you).

Maybe library use/popularity is somewhat related to backwards compatibility.

Disclaimer: I teach Python for a living.

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kelvinjps 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Python it's a language that really good libraries for different domains. like web: django/flask AI numpy pytorch and more. All the ecosystem for scripting and being already installed in most linux distros and on macs. For GUI it has really good bindings for the major frameworks QT,GTK.

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punnerud 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And PyTorch, and Pandas, and, and…

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		Built and or inspired by NumPy...

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B1FF_PSUVM 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> you get a 10x increase porting to Rust (and the AI does it for you)

So, you keep reading/writing Python and push a button to get binary executables through whatever hoops are best today ?

(I haven't seen the "fits your brain" tagline in the recent past ...)