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What is the killer app for python though? Django? numpy? I don't think it really has one, certainly not like the ruby/rails relationship.
by dschobel 17y ago
What is the killer app for python though? Django? numpy?
I don't think it really has one, certainly not like the ruby/rails relationship.
- bad_user 17y agoDon't forget the Natural Language Toolkit ( http://www.nltk.org/ http://www.nltk.org/ ). Rails is just a web framework. Killer? Yes. All you need for many apps? No. And yes, both Django and numpy are also killer packages ... with Django probably being the inspiration for merging Rails with Merb.
- moe 17y agoPython might not have a single "killer-app", but it has a killer ecosystem, which I learned to value higher. Much of the joy in working with python comes from the "already written" effect. Libraries exist for almost any imaginable task, and it doesn't cease to surprise me how good the average code-quality is. It's extremely rare for me to run into a foul egg, which is a pleasant change from the platforms I've previously worked with.
- dschobel 17y agoI agree and I love python for that, but people learn Ruby specifically to do Rails work. My point is only that python has no similar library or framework driving uptake.
- moe 17y agoSo far it hasn't been hurt by that. Every time I read about scripting language popularity python is usually right up there, in front of all others. Only because the python community is not as vocal as, say, the rails community doesn't mean it has no uptake.