I'm kind of in the same boat. Here's my opinion. Python has many numeric types. That makes it well suited to machine learning and data science which are hot rig

I'm kind of in the same boat. Here's my opinion. Python has many numeric types. That makes it well suited to machine learning and data science which are hot right now plus the language is simple enough to pick up. That's lead to an increase in popularity. My other opinion is that python 2 is losing ground and more support for python 3 is here. That's making it easier to get started. Pipenv has simplified virtual environment and python is very stable. There are more developers today than there were yesterday. Just because a language is more popular today doesn't mean other languages are used less. It just means more people are starting with one language over another. Again, my opinion.