Hard disagree. Python is a nightmare to get started with from a dependency management perspective. Its use in exploratory programming and for writing quick hack

Hard disagree. Python is a nightmare to get started with from a dependency management perspective. Its use in exploratory programming and for writing quick hacks to solve immediate problems is so popular because you rarely care about backwards compatibility or future proofing the deployment. I think it caught on because the syntax is clear, the execution model has relatively few pieces of foot gun trivia to memorize, a really nice repl, and most importantly, almost no one doing exploratory work needs anything faster.