Re:In CPython, types implemented in C are part of the type tree
by scotty79 on Friday December 25, 2020 @02:24AM
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You are right about cause of many things with that observation.
I fully agree that you can trace the shape and popularity of C# to many specific "place and time" business events.
However Python is different. Whent it got traction it wasn't the only thing around, and it's usage over the years follows the curve that no other language is following.
Because of that I believe there's more to Python popularity than just circumstances of its birth and development.
It would not surprise me at all that in an alternate universe, the exact same language was released a mere six months later, and was forgotten into obscurity.
Microsoft is undeniably the giant it is today largely because at that exact moment IBM needed a cheap operating system for it's line of personal computers and that Bill Gates' parent at the time worked for IBM and could arrange that deal certainly also helped.
The success of many giant companies can be traced to a pivotal event that was sheer dumb luck — for FedEx, this event was actually gambling in a casino with what money they had left when they were close to bankruptcy.