I think the hidden variable here is the affinity of academics for Python. I've never seen so much Python as in universities. It mostly draws converts from MATLA

I think the hidden variable here is the affinity of academics for Python. I've never seen so much Python as in universities. It mostly draws converts from MATLAB, and the feel of the language fits nicely onto what they're used to. It's probably the most popular language in education (having replaced Smalltalk and Scheme) and it'll probably stick around for a while. Other traditional use cases for Python haven't been affected by the popularity of ML so much as the shift towards static typing in corporate settings and competition from new convenience-oriented languages like Go and Elixir, as well as the growth of the Javascript ecosystem. My first real job involved porting an app from Python to Go.