I&#x27;m not particularly surprised that it&#x27;s written in Python.<p>- Lua&#x2F;Torch appears to not be designed for distributed systems as much, and looks less mature in terms of the scientific computing side.
 - PHP is clearly the wrong tool for this job - it&#x27;s only really the right tool for websites (debatable).
 - Could do Node.js, but has little&#x2F;no data-science&#x2F;scientific computing side.<p>C++ would be the only reasonable competitor to Python here I think. Python is a pretty good combination of great for science, good for servers and easy to pick up and use for all the engineers who will need to interact with it.