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Wait, Python was sexy at one point? The engineers I know who use python are all serious, pragmatic and a little OCD. They didn't learn Python because it was sex
by Aloisius 14y ago
Wait, Python was sexy at one point? The engineers I know who use python are all serious, pragmatic and a little OCD. They didn't learn Python because it was sexy, they learned it because it because it was an ultra-readable language.
I don't think Python was ever sexy. There was a bit of a Ruby vs. Python thing a few years ago, but both languages were downright old when they became popular.
A year ago, we had people telling us that JavaScript of all things is sexy because of NodeJS. Now it is Go (though that hype seems to be fading quickly).
People really need to stop worrying about the flavor of the week. You're never going to be programming in the sexy language for more than a couple years before the next trend pops up.
- rudiger 14y agoIt's the people who worry about the flavor of the week (the early followers, if you will) who take the language from "sexy, trendy, and unstable" to "productive, stable, serious, and pragmatic."
- freshhawk 14y agoIn my experience those people might get things started but they leave for the next "sexy, trendy and unstable" language and then actual engineering gets done to get "productive, stable, serious, and pragmatic." actually working.
- espeed 14y agoClojure and Go are sexy right now, but I see no signs of that fading.
- nacker 14y agoThe best argument for the quality of anything, is that it succeeds despite lacking "sexiness". I first encountered python in 1993, and although I was intrigued, my first reaction was that it could never become popular, because it was too good! Almost 20 years later, I'm glad to see that people are not as stupid as I sometimes think.