 This is just a strange thing to say. There are so many languages out there with very interesting features, I&#x27;m not sure why you insist python is the only obvious choice. In my experience, all of the advanced research for proprietary companies in this area is not being done on Python, at least not those who are willing to speak at conferences. There&#x27;s a lot of GPU computing also available to Java, if you think that&#x27;s the reason Python is the only option. Python is certainly more widely used as a teaching language, so I guess you might see more libraries that are widely known because of universities in the academic environment, but I&#x27;m not sure why you think that means that it&#x27;s the only language that major institutions are using?  Because the reality is that almost all the cutting edge stuff that I&#x27;ve read about is not being done in python at all.