> more importantly for adoption than Python being a general-purpose language is that it is already relatively widely adopted in various industries as a tooling

> more importantly for adoption than Python being a general-purpose language is that it is already relatively widely adopted in various industries as a tooling language. For good and bad, universities today are very keen on providing skills with immediate relevance to employeers Maybe I phrased it confusingly but you're saying the same things I thought. I don't mean "go after" in a conscious/targeted way. I meant "it evolved towards taking over". And "immediate relevance to employeers" is provided by being a "general purpose language" (like in "look, you can quickly wip up web apps, general server admin scrips and even excell plugins with it"). And "tooling" mostly equals "general purpose" in my book: there is no clear definition of "tooling" it's about "glue code" that needs to do "a bit of everything" to tie things together... so you need a "general purpose" language for tooling. (Now I see that maybe some people use "general purpose" as in "you can write anything from device drivers and OSs to web apps if you really want to" but this is "systems languages" in my terms or C and C++ and the newcomers Rust and D. But by this definition even Go would be very far from "general purpose"...)