I remember when python started, perl was there, and when I wanted to write scripts for some pentesting, perl was the choice over python. But I think the whole “

I remember when python started, perl was there, and when I wanted to write scripts for some pentesting, perl was the choice over python. But I think the whole “data scientists” crowd is what made it popular and mainstream, they are usually non-programmers, and looking for an easy way to manipulate the numbers, speed or performance isn’t really the priority, that use case is fair, what is not good is the other crowd, people who want to use python for everything and shove it everywhere, backend!? Sure, embedded?! Absolutely, heck even frontend I saw some are trying to use it and marketing it “pure python”.. even ML I believe we would be at a better stage of Python wasn’t the main tool used in that domain. I can’t say much about ruby, barely used it, but if I were you I will look at Go, it’s definitely better than Ruby and still ahead in terms of performance, not the top one but for its easy of use, it is probably the best choice.