On: Ruby “Thread Contention” Is Simply GVL Queuing

[pjmlp]

Python was on the right spot as Tcl/Perl successor, Ruby only became known thanks to Rails and arrived too late for that.

Already in early 2000's CERN was scripting their builds, Fortran and C++ tooling with Python.

Their Grid Computing tutorials, predating what we now call Cloud, already used Python.

[masklinn → pjmlp]

Yeah like many things Python's overnight success was the result of a decade of work. Python started involving scientists (and creating science-oriented SIGs) in the mid 90s. Numpy's original ancestor was Numeric, first released in 1995.