Comment by poulpy123

But python is a great language for data science. As the anglos say: the proof is in the pudding, and the fact it is massively used for data science prove it is great at data science.

You will say that not everything that is successful is great, and you will be right, but the success of python came organically, and not because of advertisement, de facto monopoly, politics, money, or first-arrived-advantage.

Although there is one cause that isn't intrinsic to python but from the people who built numpy. The fact there is a single numerical library, extremely easy to use, fast and extensive in the whole ecosystem was very very huge