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Why Is Python So Popular in 2025? (blog.jetbrains.com)

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

In the Python documentary they mention the early creation of numeric as an alternative for closed options like Matlab; which led to Python being used in the sciences and data processing. Then later it became the natural choice for machine learning in the early 2010s and the AI explosion of 2020+.