So popular equals good?

This confirms Alan Kay's assertion that the programming community is a pop culture, driven by fads instead of intellect.

And Python is recommended? Perhaps for little garage projects, or small Lambdas; but for anything large and complex, read about this disaster: https://www.zdnet.com/article/python-programming-language-creator-retires-saying-its-been-an-amazing-ride/

and the creator of Python himself, Guido van Rossum, said, “I've learned a painful lesson, that for small programs dynamic typing is great. For large programs, you have to have a more disciplined approach. And it helps if the language actually gives you that discipline, rather than telling you, 'Well, you can do whatever you want.'"”

Python is growing in popularity because machine learning scientists use it to get data into and out of their computational graph systems (TensorFlow, Theano). They use Python because they are NOT PROGRAMMERS. They are scientists and don't want to be software engineers. Python is very simple. But from a software engineering perspectiv, it results in code that is very, very difficult to maintain - hence Dropbox's experience.