Survivorship bias. You don't hear about the failures. Moreover, many of those things (e.g., lots of Python at Google) was written at a time when there weren't b

Survivorship bias. You don't hear about the failures. Moreover, many of those things (e.g., lots of Python at Google) was written at a time when there weren't better options, so you weren't struggling to make Python work while your competitor is writing Go or TypeScript.