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Hmm. Interesting that JS's cycle is the inverse of Java's. People learning Java during term-time, then JS during their holidays?
In their holidays, people make websites ("The next facebook!"), at term-time they make sodoku solving applications in Java for programming class.
As someone who works with Python every day, this isn't surprising. I forget where I heard/read it, but someone made the claim that Python is the "second best language for everything" (paraphrasing) and I couldn't agree more. Need to create a web app that interfaces with a data pipeline? Python/Django/Flask is perfect. There are countless other examples too.
I agree that Python works well for just about everything but wish there was a framework between Django & Flask.
TL;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…
> Anecdotally it doesn't seem to me that python usage in "industry" has grown that dramatically in the last five years, but there could be other factors involved such as education. Or my biased gut instinct could be completely off. I actually was looking at these numbers just a few days ago, trying to decide on what language to embed in something I'm working on (CPython, Duktape Javascript or Lua), and came to the sa…
I'm trying to make a similar decision at the moment - have you chosen which of these languages to use? I would be interested to hear your thoughts on the pros and cons of each.
We've standardised on Python and we're migrating all of our systems to Python / Django / Postgres from PHP / Drupal / WordPress / MySQL. We started out with one senior Dev on the Python stack, and simply found that the productivity on Python/Django just too compelling to stay on PHP. The (senior) Dev on Python had a couple of highly successful projects which resulted with him getting some junior Dev support. Then the…
> We started out with one senior Dev on the Python stack, and simply found that the productivity on Python/Django just too compelling to stay on PHP. There is nothing inherently "more productive" on one stack over the next. It's just technologies which are fundamentally similar. A competent senior dev on the python stack would be just as productive as a competent senior dev on a php stack and vice versa. It just seem…
It's hard to quantify the differences, but obviously something like Brainfuck is going to be inherently less productive as long as we're talking about human productivity.
My understanding is that Linux requires 2.7 as the default version, but it means development is a minor PITA, I have to set up v3 and use pip3 (iirc) instead of just pip and type python3 in the shell instead of just python. It appears minor, but it can get a bit annoying for a Python newbie.
I do my hobby development on Linux, Python 2.7 and 3.x are always installed but 2.7 is the default. What is the future for Linux distros dropping 2.x and moving only to 3.x? My understanding is that Linux requires 2.7 as the default version, but it means development is a minor PITA, I have to set up v3 and use pip3 (iirc) instead of just pip and type python3 in the shell instead of just python. It appears minor, but…
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But Java was an overnight success, while it took Python years to get traction. I was exposed to both around the same time, probably 1995, but I ignored Python until the second time I encountered it in 2003. It just didn't have the hype.
Java was by no means an overnight success. It was way too slow for several years until they really started to do anything more than run the bytecode in the JVM.
"we were able to hook Java runtime onto the free, open source Netscape browser. And it was a collision of two things that accelerated and launched each other together. It was fascinatingly lucky timing for both companies."
While it may have taken time to mature at that time it was an "overnight success".
Sun was considering dropping it and considered it an expense before that.
I do my hobby development on Linux, Python 2.7 and 3.x are always installed but 2.7 is the default. What is the future for Linux distros dropping 2.x and moving only to 3.x? My understanding is that Linux requires 2.7 as the default version, but it means development is a minor PITA, I have to set up v3 and use pip3 (iirc) instead of just pip and type python3 in the shell instead of just python. It appears minor, but…
Note that these future modules were all available in 2.6 which was released in 2008. But just like the ruby 2.0 upgrade people procrastinate. But you only have 2 years before python 2.7 is no longer maintained.
from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function) __metaclass__ = type
It's just something I don't understand... this is really depressing to me.
I know I shouldn't feel that way, but as a developer who loathes Python, this is a painful read. I start to feel that if I can't fight the trend then I should join it. But then every time I try Python, I feel such unease because of the low performance and the dynamic typing. It's just something I don't understand... this is really depressing to me.