I think what you must be referring to is the adoption of Python for web-based startups. Python has always been popular in certain industries/niches. From our

I think what you must be referring to is the adoption of Python for web-based startups. Python has always been popular in certain industries/niches. From our perspective we use what we feel is best and we use more than one language on some of our projects. For example, we have a LOAD of legacy code in PHP and we use it still quite extensively for some of our sites. We use Python on some of the same sites for parsing and anything requiring heavy lifting. Ultimately - use what you feel is best for the job at hand