Today, Python is popular because Python is popular. It doesn't have any engineering merits of its own. But you also cannot compete against it on engineering m

Today, Python is popular because Python is popular. It doesn't have any engineering merits of its own. But you also cannot compete against it on engineering merits. It doesn't matter if you do everything better in your language than how it's done in Python. Unless you find a way to make it popular, Python will stay popular and your language will fade into oblivion. What was the initial seed that created this popularity? -- well, it seemed cool for nonsense reasons. The choice of Python was often reactionary, to spite those who chose Java. Python just happened to fill the niche of "what language should I write in if I think Java sucks?" This had an appeal to better programmers of that time (early 2000s), and this made others believe that language was what made those better programmers better. The better programmers started to flee Python some 5-10 years later, but it had already enough momentum to attract lots of mediocre programmers, and before you knew it, Python started to be used everywhere, and while the quality of Python programmers consistently dropped, the popularity only grew. So... if you are planning on a project for yourself, or for a group of skilled and motivated individuals -- there's no reason to choose Python, in fact, you'll come to regret it if you do. But, if your goal is to make a project in the context of an industry giant, then Python is a great pick -- you'll have an infinite stream of replaceable programmers, lots of 3rd-party libraries. You'll save a lot on developing the product. It won't be a high-quality one, but in this context nobody cares about quality anyways.