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Python has a very large community, but it tends to be a lot less vocal (for better or worse) than the Ruby or Rails communities. Python is a widely used languag
by shantanubala 15y ago
Python has a very large community, but it tends to be a lot less vocal (for better or worse) than the Ruby or Rails communities. Python is a widely used language (quite possibly much more popular than Ruby since Python is taught to undergraduates at MIT, Berkeley, and other "top tier" schools).
- TylerE 15y agoIt's pretty much certain, given the widespread acceptance python has in scientific computing, an area where Ruby penetration is minimal-to-nonexistant.
- ronreiter 15y agoIt's kind of the same as node.js hipsters. A whole bunch of people worship concepts that existed long ago, thinking that node.js is the holy grail for having them, and that is why node.js is the best language in the world.
- pace 15y agoI am wondering why you are offending node.js and Ruby users. We all try to get a clue of Pythons real-world usage in this thread and you (the original poster) just brand them as hipsters (btw you could also be labeled as one of those who worship "an aging language which lost track in the web world, again and again on HN", just an example, so keep calm). Imagine some Ruby or node.js folks would offend Python, you and your learnpython site. Through this thread I got again closer to Python and in particular Flask, so use such discussions as opportunity to educate us. Such posts that offend rather scare us that python is used by some intolerant old-school fanboys.