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> Python is on the way up and third most popular but well behind C# and TypeScript. lolwut. TypeScript is niche compared to Python.

• zdragnar 4y ago
  > from the perspective of recruiting in Australia. Even accounting for that line from the comment?
  • tus666 4y ago
    Even more so. Python is huge in Australia. Can't count front-end as Python is not applicable there.
    • zdragnar 4y ago
      There's no reason to discount front-end work from "programming languages". You choose python over typescript for machine learning because the ecosystem is there. You choose typescript over python because Brython and JavaScripthon and Transcrypt have no ecosystem that makes more sense than using NPM, and the people who like to program in python prefer the challenges of other domains than what's in the web browser. That just makes "most popular programming language" a silly metric. It doesn't mean that nobody uses the language because you ignore all the people who use it for things you aren't interested in.