@hazlin it's not any one thing but the ecosystem is why a lot of people use it

if I had to articulate why I keep reaching for python I would say it's the iteration speed and the fact that most of the things I want to do are easy to do with either built in functionality or the standard library

even if I'm going to ultimately implement something in Go or C it's still useful to do a first pass in python to check my logic a lot of the time

contrary to what a lot of people say I don't find python syntax to be uniquely easy to use. it's certainly not "plain english". it's just another language with plenty of quirks. as things get more "pythonic" the syntax can become very opaque very quickly