The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2018

Post by geoalchimista » Sat, Jun 09, 2018, 6:03 PM UTC

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What's suddenly making Python so popular? I mean, it has been around since the 90s, why is it suddenly gaining tracking in 2017-18? What changed?

I believe it's due to consistently good performance over the years: * The outstanding documentation site. * Execution speed for an interpreted language. * Highly transparent language evolution, managed by the nonprofit Python Foundation. * Semantic versioning. * Core developer communication is in English. * Excellent module definition and import system. * Culture of explicitness, not implicitness. The ecosystem has a…