It's not just about the market speaking. There's path dependence between it being easy to use for scripting and scientific things as well as bumpy which made it

It's not just about the market speaking. There's path dependence between it being easy to use for scripting and scientific things as well as bumpy which made it natural to supplant things like Matlab in teaching. And then basic knowledge translates to industry jobs. It's not popular purely based on its merits as a language