We are not seeing a shift from desktop to mobile. We are seeing a shift from mobile plus the backend servers that enable mobile applications. And Python is th

We are not seeing a shift from desktop to mobile. We are seeing a shift from mobile plus the backend servers that enable mobile applications. And Python is the language choice of many for developing backend applications and tools alongside other high performance technologies like Java and Go (no this isn't a plug for GAE). And Python's dominance as the language of choice for scientific applications (on-top of various C/Fortran libraries of course) is only becoming more and more cemented as time goes on. And we should probably acknowledge the fairly substantial role Python plays in cross-platform and UNIX GUI development, especially in conjunction with Qt. Probably not a lot of growth in this area, especially as tablet devices take over, but worth a mention. So Python might not rule (or even be viable) in every facet of software development, but being a central player in mobile backend development (an area that will expand in line with mobile itself), and the lingua franca for scientific programming is none too shabby an achievement. Hey, it could be worse - right Perl? ;-)