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Mostly because the whole Data Science and ML stuff is catching on. Everyone and their grandma now wants to do something related to AI, ML etc. The easiest langu
by thisisit 9y ago
Mostly because the whole Data Science and ML stuff is catching on. Everyone and their grandma now wants to do something related to AI, ML etc. The easiest language for these is? Python. Hence the growth.
Once upon a time it was all about cloud, SaaS and building a webapp. Hence the growth of JS.
- choxi 9y agoThe chart makes a pretty compelling case that this is the right answer. The top trending libraries are pandas, numpy, and matplotlib (both flask and django are probably trending at the same baseline rate of any top 10 popular language). These are all libraries heavily used in data science. We also know that ML and AI are new macro trends in the tech industry. Python's elegant syntax isn't really evidence for why Python is trending now as opposed to any other time in the last decade.
- bsilvereagle 9y ago> These are all libraries heavily used in data science. These are all libraries heavily used in any technical computing field. The cost of MATLAB, the simplicity of Jupyter, and the community around Python have caused Python to slowly be a language used for general technical computing, not just data science.