Where can I sign up ? 😉 <| sep |> Yeah . It ' s tough to handle , but it ' s getting better . <| sep |> what a close series . pleasure to watch these tier 2 teams <| sep |> The CLR languages C #, . NET don ' t get a lot of traction in bioinformatics because of the lack of useful library support in this field and a general academic disinterest in the Visual Studio tool chain . Java sees a certain amount of support , but BioJava isn ' t very good , and frankly Java requires an almost astonishing degree of boilerplate code and nobody has time for that . Python ' s lower barriers to entry and comparative ease of project initiation puts it at the forefront . Also , why do you say that Python isn ' t a true objectoriented language ? I ' d agree that Perl and JavaScript aren ' t , but Python has pretty robust class and object paradigms , they ' re just not obligatory in the sense that they are in Java . But actually most constructs in Python are themselves objects it just turns out not to matter if they are or not because Python is dynamically but strongly typed . But static typing isn ' t required for OO it ' s also not particularly helpful in bioinformatics or , I would argue , in any data science application of Java .