Python was invented two years before Java and didn’t move the needle until the mid 2010s.

You are the typical mark for hype cycles. Get a clue will you.

> Python ... didn’t move the needle until the mid 2010s.

Nope. I was on a Python project in 2006 and earned a paycheck doing so.

Python was being used as a teaching language at flagship universities in the mid 2000s.