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> I don’t know of any tech companies using Python for anything serious anymore, except data/ML analysis, which is usually not too much code. If you make me rewr
by telmo 3y ago
> I don’t know of any tech companies using Python for anything serious anymore, except data/ML analysis, which is usually not too much code. If you make me rewrite the thing, it’s getting rewrote in Go or Rust, not Python again.
It is weirdly comforting to observe how certain things never change over the years, even in tech. One of them is the hyperboles people deploy when attacking programming languages that they do not like: "I don’t know of any tech companies using Python for anything serious anymore". I mean, except for being the 4th most popular language amongst professional according to last year's Stack Overflow survey. Only JavaScript, SQL and HTML/CSS are more popular. Yes, yes, I am sure it is dying... any moment now.
- t8sr 3y agoYou just read what you want to read, friend. I don’t particularly dislike Python, in fact I wrote about 50k lines of it a few years ago. My claim is that the big names don’t really use Python outside of data pipelines. Where I’ve worked (including an org that had had Guido on it for a while) usually had guidance saying “no new Python projects”. You can ask people at Google, Meta, etc when was the last time they wrote production Python code if you don’t believe me. That’s not mutually exclusive with web devs on Stack Overflow using the language, nor does it take away from its success in academia.