Python is going to die. Not today, not tomorrow, but it will not be a lasting language like C, C++ or Java.
The main issue is that Python is, right now, the front-end of C/C++: You want to generate statistics about something: Python has the libraries! -- but these libraries are in C++. Do you want to handle IA: Python has the libraries! -- but these libraries are also in C++.
If, sometime, the C++ committee wakes up and decide to clean up their act and make the language syntax simpler, Python would die.
"Oh, C++ will never be user friendly." Look at Java, compare its version 2 (e.g. Java 1.2) to the current language: It is astonishingly easier to use modern Java compared to the old ones. And that took something like 10 years.
It just takes someone wanting to create a library that it is really pretty and easy to read in C++ to completely obliterate Python.
@juliobiason I'm pretty sure that Python being married to C++ is a dysfunctional relationship that works for them both. Python can avoid doing heavy computation, and C++ can continue to pretend that they're moving in a useful direction
Unless Python wakes up and decide "You know, we need that those things where Python are used to be written in pure Python", I truly believe it will be run-over some small change.
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