I think it's just a convenient and popular language to experiment with. For production systems, people just use Python + Rust when needing a balance between dy

I think it's just a convenient and popular language to experiment with. For production systems, people just use Python + Rust when needing a balance between dynamism and strictness. The tooling to mix them is very mature and the communities are overlapping. With uv becoming the defacto packaging solution for python, I expect the border to blur even more in the future.