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Go doesn't have anywhere near the amount of libraries or support that we see with Python. Python isn't being assaulted on any front. We have always had multip
by bobby_9x 11y ago
Go doesn't have anywhere near the amount of libraries or support that we see with Python.
Python isn't being assaulted on any front. We have always had multiple programming languages and some are better than others.
My issue is that we seem to have these fad languages, like Ruby-on-rails. I still remember when it was rammed down our throats on HN around ~2008 and you were instantly down voted if you wanted to objectively talk about it's pros and cons.
Now, all of the same people from that community (which I noticed, are mostly designers, not developers) have jumped ship and moved into Javascript frameworks like Ember.js and node.js.
PHP, while flawed and not cool anymore, is still one of the most popular languages.
Python will be around for a long time.
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- Jach 11y agoI'd say PHP is still cool, there's nothing quite like it. (For good reason, according to snooty devs, who are the ones that don't think it's cool or ever was cool...) I'm probably closer to a snooty dev myself now too with my favorite languages to sip on being Clojure/Lisp/Python2.7/Nim, but man PHP was the most awesome thing when I was 15-16 and learning web programming. I still find aspects of it cool when I do web stuff in other languages (though a lot of that is probably from the CGI model), and there's no way it can maintain its 80% market share if no one (even out of ignorance) thinks it's cool. When people ask if Python is dying on the web... seems kind of irrelevant, it never had much market share there anyway. Python's strength is in its breadth, with a few deep anchors here and there. I agree it's not going anywhere.