For the vast majority of a language users, the community and the libraries matter a lot more than the merits of the core language. Look at R. I'm not sure any

For the vast majority of a language users, the community and the libraries matter a lot more than the merits of the core language. Look at R. I'm not sure anyone would hold it up as a great core language. However, it is very successful and becoming more so, due to its awesome libraries and community. numpy, scipy and matplotlib are really powerful. Go and Node don't have anything close to their capabilities.