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It seems python is assaulted on all fronts..would now be a bad time to invest in a python stack, or will efforts to future-proof python (numba, blaze, nuitka, pyjion, Django channels, pyparallel) bare fruit?
Python isn't being assaulted on any front. We have always had multiple programming languages and some are better than others.
My issue is that we seem to have these fad languages, like Ruby-on-rails. I still remember when it was rammed down our throats on HN around ~2008 and you were instantly down voted if you wanted to objectively talk about it's pros and cons.
Now, all of the same people from that community (which I noticed, are mostly designers, not developers) have jumped ship and moved into Javascript frameworks like Ember.js and node.js.
PHP, while flawed and not cool anymore, is still one of the most popular languages.
Python will be around for a long time.
A tad bit old, but read this: http://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2012/10/pythons-futur...
TL;DR: No.
Go is new and has lots of issues. It's annoying on many fronts and badly needs improvements in packaging area. It's good for some things and worse for others.
JS is for frontend, because it's the only supported language. (although there are python-to-js compilers available if you really want to use it)
Julia for data science? Only if you started recently. R, numpy/scipy, mathematica, matlab, etc. still rule data science.
The projects you listed for python are fairly new. I expect half of them will be dead and forgotten in a year and other half will get more popular, but they're not future-proofing anything. Python always had a lot of experiments going on and will likely get more of them in the future.
Trying to predict language popularity is like trying to play on the stockmarket. Unless you can research what's really happening inside the biggest players (companies/organisations) you won't get realistic answers. Just learn what you like and what's relatively popular. Expect you'll need to learn something else in 5 years.
BTW: Go was created in 2009, julia in 2012, reasonable js (ecma5) in late 2009. Python's around since 1991 - do you really expect it's just going to disappear?
Python I'd say is in a similar boat. Strong and established with tons of libraries, not popular amongst the kids.
Edit: Apparently my use of "kids" as a sarcastic way of referring to those who won't use "old" languages was missed. :)
For general computing, what would happen when it gains static compilation and can be distributed easily on Linux/Windows, Mobile and then web (with Emscripten/web assembly).
Then its as expressive if not more than python, easy to read/write and faster (unless its written poorly).
Reading HN, you'd think Java was dying (dead?) too. But it's not. It's an established language with a lot of very senior people still using it. It has it's issues for sure, but it also has a ton of libraries and support. Python I'd say is in a similar boat. Strong and established with tons of libraries, not popular amongst the kids. Edit: Apparently my use of "kids" as a sarcastic way of referring to those who won't…
Reading HN, you'd think Java was dying (dead?) too. But it's not. It's an established language with a lot of very senior people still using it. It has it's issues for sure, but it also has a ton of libraries and support. Python I'd say is in a similar boat. Strong and established with tons of libraries, not popular amongst the kids. Edit: Apparently my use of "kids" as a sarcastic way of referring to those who won't…
Reading HN, you'd think Java was dying (dead?) too. But it's not. It's an established language with a lot of very senior people still using it. It has it's issues for sure, but it also has a ton of libraries and support. Python I'd say is in a similar boat. Strong and established with tons of libraries, not popular amongst the kids. Edit: Apparently my use of "kids" as a sarcastic way of referring to those who won't…