Yes , but the young contenders already exist. If Nim gets more traction , over time it may replace Python.
Don't hold your breath. Nim doesn't have the kind of ecosystem, and hasn't shown signs of having one.
The Incredible Growth of Python
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#12The chart there really emphasizes to what degree Java, C++, and to a lesser degree Javascript are used as teaching languages. There's a clear cyclical pattern in their question frequency that presumably corresponds to academic semesters.
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#13TL;DR: Slightly interesting but narrowly focused article with clickbait-ish headline. It charts the growth of Stack Overflow python question views in the last five years. While this is an interesting statistic there is no additional analysis that it correlates to python's usage growth. And no hypothesis is given for the growth in question views, although they tease a future post about that. It would have been far mor…
>While this is an interesting statistic there is no additional analysis that it correlates to python's usage growth.
You believe that Python would ever generate more questions over time on SO without getting more users/usage?
I guess the mysterious dumbing down of a stable user base is an alternative explanation.
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#15What packages do people use mostly on Python? Those packages could explain why Python is so popular.
Re: The Incredible Growth of Python
#16TL;DR: Slightly interesting but narrowly focused article with clickbait-ish headline. It charts the growth of Stack Overflow python question views in the last five years. While this is an interesting statistic there is no additional analysis that it correlates to python's usage growth. And no hypothesis is given for the growth in question views, although they tease a future post about that. It would have been far mor…
Fellow 20+ years Python user here.
Python adoption outside first world countries have always lagged considerably behind. A common pattern among technologies.
I suspect a lot of that growth is the rest of the world catching up.
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#18Python 2 advocates were quite firm in telling us that Python 3 and its incompatibility with Python 2 had killed Python and people would abandon Python altogether in droves for other languages. This post is suggesting the opposite, that Python is more healthy than ever and growing incredibly fast.
Three of us (including me), in an academic lab, are making the jump from matlab to python. We use py3 (of Anaconda, on Windows10). We like it, but we are constantly screaming and bitching about the complications of 2 3 ("Ahhh X and Y module only works on py2!", "Ahhh device developer only provides example code for Labview and Matlab!", "Ahhh python isn't even supported for this device/application!"). Package manageme…
Package management was so frustrating coming from Ruby to Python. There are so many programs, and version conflicts that I run into all the time. With gems and bundler, it was rare if things didn't work.
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#19Python 2 advocates were quite firm in telling us that Python 3 and its incompatibility with Python 2 had killed Python and people would abandon Python altogether in droves for other languages. This post is suggesting the opposite, that Python is more healthy than ever and growing incredibly fast.
Are most developers finally making the transition from Python 2 to 3?
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#20interestingly the curve starts to take off even before the introduction of tensorflow