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A comment on Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?.

Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by dataminded on Monday December 22, 2025 @01:20PM (#46356958)
Python was easy to read and write. Network effects did the rest.

Perl6 was a much greater mess than Python3.

I'm more surprised that Ruby didn't do better.

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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by zahlman on Monday December 22, 2025 @02:54PM (#46358204)
> I'm more surprised that Ruby didn't do better.

As you say,

> Network effects did the rest.

In an alternate set of universes, Ruby has Python's current position, and you are wondering why Python didn't take off. (But I suspect Ruby evolved fairly differently in those cases.) The universes where both are popular are much rarer.

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