Comment by 0xbadcafebee

What's popular and what's good are rarely (if ever) the same thing.

Python sucks balls but it has more fanboys than a K-pop idol. Enforced whitespace? No strong typing? A global interpreter lock? Garbage error messages? A package repository you can't search (only partially because it's full of trash packages and bad forks) with random names and no naming convention? A complete lack of standardization in installing or setting up applications/environments? 100 lines to run a command and read the stout and stderr in real time?

The real reason everyone uses Python and Go is because Google used them. Otherwise Python looks like BASIC with objects and Go is an overhyped niche language.