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Python is dying in much the same way that C is dying, and by that I mean it's not dying at all. I'm no expert on Go or JS but Julia is not even close to being
by noelsusman 11y ago
Python is dying in much the same way that C is dying, and by that I mean it's not dying at all. I'm no expert on Go or JS but Julia is not even close to being a serious competitor to Python for data science right now. Besides, Julia has a role more similar to R than Python.
- aninteger 11y agoI think C and even C++ are basically dead from a job market perspective but seem alive and doing ok in the opensource community. The need for paid C development pales in comparison to the job market for python. The industry, at least outside HN, for "backend" type work has settled on java/.net languages. They are just good enough for 95% of use cases and easy enough to hire for.
- eva1984 11y agoAFAIK, for a competitive backend programmers, besides C++/Java, good at least one script language(tool) is a must, let it be bash/perl/Python, etc... More and more people are picking up Python for this role, simply because it is more a complete package than its competitors. I do agree with you, knowing ONLY Python is not really something to feel good at, but same thing can be said for any other programming language...