Python is one of the tools in my toolbox, so I never used it exclusively. This means i need to get an update, occasionally.
Rant mode on
They want to have an expressive language, so they keep adding features upon features to it, instead of caring too much about performance (which means that no JIT - just-in-time compiler - has been added to cpython).
I would have thought that typescript is gaining over python on github, because node.js is JIT based, unlike cpython, but that guess was wrong: github article. The github article suggests a different reason: