Python's increasing popularity in scientific and high-performance computing

Python is an experiment on how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered. Last year, Python was named the most popular programming language. The language's growing popularity can be attributed to the rise of data science and the machine learning ecosystem and corresponding software libraries like Pandas, Tensorflow, PyTorch, and NumPy, among others. The fact that it is so easy to learn helps Python gain favour among the programmers' community.