The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2018

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Post by barrongineer » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 4:13 PM UTC

The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2018
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Post by Someone1234 » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 5:49 PM UTC

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?

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Post by bitL » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 5:54 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #2

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?

Deep/Machine Learning

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Post by Scarbutt » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 5:57 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #2

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?

More universities adopting it might be one of many reasons.

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Post by soneca » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 6:07 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #2

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?

Python mostly replaced Ruby(Rails) as the first choice for beginners learning backend for the web.

And Python is becoming the first choice for the Machine Learning and even Data Science.

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Post by myth_drannon » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 6:07 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #2

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?

As you can see from the Python usage chart most use it for Data Analysis

Data analysis 52% Web development 45%

And most popular libraries :

NumPy / matplotlib / SciPy / Pandas and similar 47% Django 45%

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Post by stuffedBelly » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 6:10 PM UTC

In quant finance space, Python has been gradually taking over matlab/sas for signal/model implementation.

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Post by user5994461 » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 6:17 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #2

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?

Nothing changed. It had traction for more than a decade.

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Post by lftl » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 6:28 PM UTC

soneca wrote: post #5

Someone1234 wrote: post #2

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?

Python mostly replaced Ruby(Rails) as the first choice for beginners learning backend for the web. And Python is becoming the first choice for the Machine Learning and even Data Science.

> Python mostly replaced Ruby(Rails) as the first choice for beginners learning backend for the web.

Is that really the case? I mean I adopted Python and Flask for web work quite awhile ago, but I still see a lot more Ruby web devs around here than anything else.

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Post by poulsbohemian » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 6:30 PM UTC

Scarbutt wrote: post #4

Someone1234 wrote: post #2

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?

More universities adopting it might be one of many reasons.

Can confirm. My alma mater switched to it as their primary introductory language in about 2006. They had moved from Pascal to C++ to Java, with C++ and Java only lasting a few years each. I got the sense this was a trend in undergraduate academia.