New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why are a lot of AI projects written in Python?

Ask HN: Why are a lot of AI projects written in Python?
2 by aliqot | 4 comments on Hacker News.
I'm probably not the foremost authority on AI and ML, but a lot of it seems to be in Python. I'm assuming this is because it is popular in research fields and lots of libraries exist. The progress has been amazing in such a short time to say the least. Curious that since a lot of things are popularly rewritten in Rust or Zig, why has this not happened on these types of projects?