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I would put python in this category. Back in the RoR days, python had a very second class status in the web community. There were some famous web 2.0 companies
by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
I would put python in this category.
Back in the RoR days, python had a very second class status in the web community. There were some famous web 2.0 companies that are using django. All the limelight was on Rails.
These days, python is probably the second most popular langauge for after JavaScript in number of repos and maybe the go-to language for first time Devs.
(Thanks to Zed Shaw)
And there are significantly more people doing web app dev with Python now than with Ruby
- mywittyname 5y agoPython was kind of a cult-popular language in the 2000s. I did as much work as I could get away with in it; mostly system-level nuts and bolts kind of things, but also web apps. Django 1.2 was the killer app that made it so much easier to sell to teams. But by then, I think RoR was more fashionable.
- mohanmcgeek 5y agoIt was. While I was using Rails for web dev, I was using python for Gtk apps.. Ubuntu had a visual Gtk app creator. I forgot what it was called. It generated python code by default. That whole Linux app ecosystem was python for a while. Then there was a brief period of Vala being used for this. Not sure what they use these days