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Who still uses Python?
by darmon 14y ago
Who still uses Python?
- kingkilr 14y agoGoogle, NASA, Intel, AMD, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Canonical, Red Hat, Amazon, Netflix, and thousands upon thousands more.
- ajtulloch 14y agoFacebook as well.
- shill 14y agoI'm sure Python is used prevalently at Facebook, but if you search their career page for 'Python' you get zero results. https://www.facebook.com/careers/search?q=python&location= https://www.facebook.com/careers/search?q=python&locatio... If you search for 'PHP' you get goose eggs too. Does anyone know if language names are intentionally filtered out of career searches at Facebook? 'GIS' and 'Logistics' work as search terms.
- kennymeyers 14y agoI believe our mentality is good engineers want interesting problems to solve and can learn any language. We're interested in what you've done, not the language can do it in.
- nbm 14y ago(Work at Facebook, but not on this system, and know nothing about it.) It looks like the search matches on job title/position, and not content. That does seem a bit unexpected. In general, Facebook does not place much emphasis on programming languages that people know before they start at the job, and part of the Bootcamp process includes the expectation that people will be learning at least one language they don't know (unless they already know C++, Java, PHP, and Python at a production-code-writing-ability, and then they'll have to learn our libraries anyway). We obviously discuss the languages we use and what we use them for during the hiring process so that people know what they're getting themselves into - people might be looking for something familiar to ease themselves into it, or they might be looking to explore a new language when they start. (Yes, we use Python for a bunch of stuff. And I know we had a few people working on talk abstracts for PyCon to try meet the deadline that explore a few ways we use it.)
- shill 14y agoGreat answer. Thanks. Hopefully I'll get to see some of those talks at Pycon.
- zissou 14y agoI first learned Python (which I use for web-related functions) from an engineer at Seagate who uses it everyday in failure analysis of drives (they use something like Python 2.2 still). That's something I always loved about Python -- it can be used for anything. It may not always be the "best" language for the job, but you can always "get it running" in Python. That's why I love Python.
- ehutch79 14y agoYeah. but any companies whose names I might actually recognize? thought not, pythons is clearly dead.... </sarcasm>
- duked 14y agoI'm many companies... At least I know many researchers who us it to build small prototypes and rapidly demonstrate a proof of concept.
- swang 14y agoWhen I was applying for a job a large majority of the companies were looking primarily for python developers. Google uses python and that alone is probably enough to never need to ask the parent's question.
- achompas 14y agoI agree about many companies using Python, but I've heard from former Googlers that most of their code is written in Java or C++.
- huxley 14y agoDepends a lot on what department you're in. There are a lot of Pythoners at Google. http://stackoverflow.com/a/2561008 http://stackoverflow.com/a/2561008
- AnIrishDuck 14y agoYeah... lets not forget that Guido van Rossum himself is employed by Google (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum).
- gitarr 14y agoYouTube (owned by Google) is mainly Python. Here a talk from Pycon 2012, the technical part starts around 10 min. in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lGCC4KKok http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lGCC4KKok
- dorkrawk 14y agoA lot of things that are built on Django probably use Python: Disqus, Pintrest, Instagram, Fitocracy, some Mozilla stuff, and a lot of news sites (just to name a few).
- Donwangugi 14y agoI still use python a lot. Out of curiosity then what are the popular languages now?