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For what it’s worth: According to google trends [1] the number of queries for (and the interest for) Python has surpassed JavaScript and is on a par with Java.
by submeta 8y ago
For what it’s worth: According to google trends [1] the number of queries for (and the interest for) Python has surpassed JavaScript and is on a par with Java. And looking at the Alexa rank of the websites for Python [2] and Java [3]: Python‘s website has much more traffic.
[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=%2Fm%2F02p97,%2Fm%2F05z1_,%2Fm%2F07sbkfb https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
[2] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/python.org https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/python.org
[3] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/java.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/java.com
- onion2k 8y agoGoogle queries is a terrible metric though. If a language has good documentation and great support in popular IDEs you would expect more people to use it and the number of searches to drop.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- sverhagen 8y ago>For what it's worth Right. I think it's a bit of a stretch to call java.com "the website for Java". I end up on python.org (or at least docs.python.org) often enough. I never go to java.com. If I end up anywhere on the "official" Java websites, it'd rather be docs.oracle.com/javase/...some-doc...
- submeta 8y agoGood point re java.com