There were always other choices. Lua is the main one that comes to mind. The point is that data science use came quite late in the Python world, and the increa

There were always other choices. Lua is the main one that comes to mind. The point is that data science use came quite late in the Python world, and the increase in users due to it is incremental. Python was already at 3.x before the ML world adopted it. If the ML world picked another language, Python would still be in the top 5 languages.