[jbb555]

> It did one thing and did it better than anything else of the same era

I would argue that it still does. It's not a great language, but to just get something working I still can't think of anything better that doesn't require lots of planning or infrastructure

[OOPMan]

Getting up and running with Python + Flask is trivially easy.

If you think it's not then there's something else going on you're not addressing...

[dmux]

Trivial for those who read HN perhaps.