IMHO Django is what really catapults Python as one of the leading contender of interpreted programming languages for web development in the presence of the othe

IMHO Django is what really catapults Python as one of the leading contender of interpreted programming languages for web development in the presence of the other popular ones namely Perl, Ruby, TCL and PHP. After many people started using Python for web development made popular by web framework like Zope and Django, then they stay and keep using it because it's relatively easy to program. Above all it's easier to grok and maintain due to its ancestor being ABC language. It also adopted identation and made it mandatory mainly for readability reason since most of the popular programs has more than one programmer or maintainer. Initially though Python got a lot of flak for this mandatory identation feature but later it's really its main advantage against other interpreted programming language of its time and programmers consider it a language with pseudo-like codes, but with functionality. Then come the era of data science and analytics popularity where Fortran and Matlab were kings, but the former is too primitive and the latter is a proprietary language. Interestingly, Guido himself was involved with new Python matrix operation syntax in order to make it more intuitive. Due to the rise of AI and machine learning where matrix operations are pervasive, Python becoming the best open source alternative and the rest is history. This is a very interesting read on HN for the reasons why Python win over its competitor and now the most popular language on the planet: [1] Ask HN: Why did Python win? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37308747 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37308747