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I mean, they are kind of the same in a different order. My takeaway is this: - Web technologies still dominate. Never bet against the web. - Java and C# are s

• poulsbohemian 4y ago
  > People really like Python, much more than the professional developer community does. Just to be clear, I'm not intending to pick a fight in asking this - who do we believe is using python, if not the professional developer community? I think there are plenty of people in academia and research who are not principally programmers using it, but job postings et. al. would certainly seem to express that a whole lot of professional programmers are using it. Though perhaps less use at FAANG? - maybe that's the defining criteria here?
  • qsort 4y ago
    Don't intend to pick a fight either, but Python seems to be more liked by people who aren't primarily developers (researchers and academics, but also other technical figures like sysadmins, data scientists, analysts, etc.) probably because Python's advantages are very obvious and Python's downsides only start to become apparent to more experienced users. An alternative reason could be that it's starting to get traction as a "CS 101 language", where those classes would have used Java before (or C before that); more people have heard of Python than they have heard of, say Go or Rust. Obviously both professional developers and "not primarily developers" generally like and use Python. I meant this as a comparison rather than "developers don't use Python". FAANGs, I really don't know, but I would find it odd if they didn't use Python to at least some extent.