The other comments answer this well. But I'll add Ruby on Rails and a lessor extent Ruby was pushed by hipsters hard and people who didn't program but were int

The other comments answer this well. But I'll add Ruby on Rails and a lessor extent Ruby was pushed by hipsters hard and people who didn't program but were internet explorers. Python just was. You'd never have not considered it a language. I always thought having Python 2 and 3 held it back a decade. The fact it won despite that means to me it was never a contest.