I believe that python is such a general purpose language, so far from being only the data scientists’ go-to language, no matter that It looks like it with the hype&rise of putting ML before or after any and everything. In many places, it’s considered to be the most suitable language for starting education as well. Would it be pushed to a corner just by Its heterogeneous popularity among the data scientists ? I don’t know. But if all this combines with the fact of Its slowness on certain scenarios and Golang stealing from Its “market share” for this, why not… After that , you might see things like Numpy considered for standard library