&gt; new, faster, parallel-aware languages<p>There were faster languages (and probably more &#x27;parallel-aware&#x27; languages - it&#x27;s not an area I&#x27;m very knowledgeable about)  before Python but that wasn&#x27;t the reason it took off. It&#x27;s fairly unlikely to be the reason it dies off either.<p>Python remains one of the most humane languages out there and that&#x27;s a quality that is much more intangible and hard to replicate.