I can't speak to Python, but Java was for a short but incredibly relevant time, the cross-platform scripting language of web servers. Java was the scripting la

I can't speak to Python, but Java was for a short but incredibly relevant time, the cross-platform scripting language of web servers. Java was the scripting language of WebSphere and Tomcat and a few others. During the first dotcom boom, it was the lowest-risk platform choice.