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.> 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/C++ or Fortran compiled routines.So I wonder, was it easier to write C/C++ or fortran compiled extensions in python than it was in ruby?