The counterintuitive rise of Python in scientific computing (2020)
As a rubyist, it makes me sad that python ended up here rather than ruby. And I sometimes wonder why.<p>&gt; As the name suggests, numeric data is manipulated through this package, not in plain Python, and behind the scenes all the heavy lifting is done by C&#x2F;C++ or Fortran compiled routines.<p>So I wonder, was it easier to write C&#x2F;C++ or fortran compiled extensions in python than it was in ruby?