[jbergens]

This sounds like an idea without any real data. For people to prefer one they had to try both and I guess especially data science people just took the most common language in their field.

People seem to forget or miss that it took many, many years for Python to become popular outside data science. If it had just been clearly better or easier that transition should have gone much faster.

As someone else mentioned, at one point universities started using Python as an introduction language. I am still sad that they did not choose Ruby or js but here we are.