I feel it really depends on one's background. I'm doing backend with Python now but came from academia where Matlab used to be the tool/language of choice. Howe

I feel it really depends on one's background. I'm doing backend with Python now but came from academia where Matlab used to be the tool/language of choice. However, more and more academics got sick of working in that walled garden and paying oodles of money to use it and Python was a fantastic alternative to that. I believe that if you're walking the line between software-development and data-science Python does an excellent job of bridging the two.