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I think the popularity is helped by the fact that it's rarely useful in the day job for most people. You can have your Rust tinkering and there's a natural moat
by fulafel 4y ago
I think the popularity is helped by the fact that it's rarely useful in the day job for most people. You can have your Rust tinkering and there's a natural moat between it and work. It also automatically throws the safe and useful seemign borrow checker puzzles at you that don't involve the outside world.
- zozbot234 4y agoPretty sure it's the other way around - Python used to be something that was "not useful in the day job" and mostly about tinkering. This has changed dramatically over time, so Python is now a lot more popular.
- fulafel 4y agoPython used to be moated away from enterprise/corporate world as well, and this made Python loveable for the hackers & hobbyists before it went mainstream. So it's the same way around :) In Python's case the pull was different in quality, it was about a higher level more expressive language that could get more done faster compared to the estabilished corporate/enterprise languages.