> Python's popularity is largely due to how much it dumbs down and being a first mover in the scientific world. Python is obviously not "a first mover in the s

> Python's popularity is largely due to how much it dumbs down and being a first mover in the scientific world. Python is obviously not "a first mover in the scientific world" as Matlab precedes Python for over a decade and is still the de facto tool of the trade pretty much everywhere except ML. And please don't misrepresent UX as "dumbing down". If anything, Python does right far more things that other languages do blatantly wrong and even in a user-hostile way. > Python has no built-in regex support This argument reads like a blatantly desperate attempt to find any thing at all to try to get Perl's leg over Python. Meanwhile, no one ever complained about Python's re module not doing its job, and Python is extensively used pretty much everywhere, involving regex or not.