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No it's not you [0]. Rust, Go, R, and Python have the highest year-to-year growth. [0] https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/06/incredible-growth-python/ https://

• Cthulhu_ 9y ago
  Python is interesting in that list, given how it's at least 4 times as old as all of the other ones in that list. What's behind that? I don't recall any major developments after Python 3, and most of the news behind that one was about its backwards incompatibility (and currently how 2.x isn't about to go anytime soon)
  • pricechild 9y ago
    They followed up on that question with another blog post: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/14/python-growing-quickly/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/14/python-growing-quickly...
  • rrdharan 9y ago
    Explosion of interest in machine learning and data science and decent Python-based tools for those fields.
  • goatlover 9y ago
    Python's huge popularity in scientific computing fields along with it being widely taught in schools. Notice also that R was on the list, which is obviously due to huge uptick in data science. R has been around for awhile as well.