> The fact that Python is one of the most popular programming languages in the world and the fact that the PSF puts a lot of its effort into community and outre

> The fact that Python is one of the most popular programming languages in the world and the fact that the PSF puts a lot of its effort into community and outreach may well be connected. They may be, as any correlation might imply causation, but it would surprise me. Stack Overflow, great libraries (and their communities), all the data science/scientific computing open source work, the work to date on pypi, the lower barrier-to-entry syntax, as well as actual (C)Python improvements are the main things. As an analogy, I've seen in previous companies that the HR believes they set the culture of the company, and they do things that attempt to improve the culture, but I'd still say that 99%+ of company culture is not coming from HR, except if it were extremely negative (e.g. Microsoft and stack ranking). Thankfully my more recent companies have understood this much more, which is wonderful.