3 ms·

I run an ML team whose primary language is Python, and I’ve been doing scientific computation in Python (eg finite elements, numerical optimisation) in Python f

by laingc 8y ago

I run an ML team whose primary language is Python, and I’ve been doing scientific computation in Python (eg finite elements, numerical optimisation) in Python for a long time. My personal impression is that Python is used in more fields than almost any other language, but that every community is only peripherally aware of other communities. For example, Python is big in Earth Sciences (or so I am told). Almost nobody outside Earth Sciences knows that. Until maybe 5 years ago, I had no idea that people used Python for web development. It had just never occurred to me. GvR famously had to google what wsgi was. So I think your final sentence probably applies to most users of Python.

milesvp 8y ago
Yup. Python has some really good GIS libraries. So field that needs to deal with map data will often find itself drawn to python. And since it's a pretty newb friendly language you find that people who wouldn't otherwise program write simple scripts to manipulate the data and maybe output it to a csv so they can import it to excel.