>Python is not popular in ML because it is a great language but because of the ecosystem: numpy, pandas, pytorch and everything built on those allows you to do the higher level ML coding without having to reinvent efficient matrix operations for a given hardware infrastructure.
Ecosystems don't poof into existence. There are reasons people chose to write those libraries, sometimes partly or wholly in other languages for python in the first place.
It's not like python was older than or a more prominent language than say C when those libraries began.
Ecosystems don't poof into existence. There are reasons people chose to write those libraries, sometimes partly or wholly in other languages for python in the first place.
It's not like python was older than or a more prominent language than say C when those libraries began.