Sure, but by your description, you aren't really the people I'm describing. If you've been doing this since you were a teen, you're a "Real Programmer". My poin

Sure, but by your description, you aren't really the people I'm describing. If you've been doing this since you were a teen, you're a "Real Programmer". My point was that people who have to do this as item 7 of 10 things in their job description are very much less likely to learn something like Rust than Python. That is undeniably a bigger lift to a non-programmer. Python's success in the sciences is in large part due to how good a fit as a language it is for part-time occasional programmers. I like all kinds of languages, but the only ones I would encourage my partner to bother with as tools for her science work would be R and Python.