Comment by chuckhend

IMO, Python rode some of the growth from the data and scientific computing computing. It was lower friction for many people partially due to the amount of blogs, and open source projects that were available. Pandas and Numpy made it quite easy to get up and running with a lot of analytics. pytorch and tensorflow were also there to facilitate this, made people able to get the benefits of the optimized C code but most users did not have to learn C. Eventually FastAPI came out for those looking to build products out of their data, and FastAPI had fantastic documentation and guides, which helped these same folks coming from data/scientific compute build working software. I suppose what I am describing are some of the network effects.