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Python is mentioned and I think the key reason it's continued to grow while Perl declined, is a vastly more welcoming culture. Python says you know nothing, bu
by 999900000999 11mo ago
Python is mentioned and I think the key reason it's continued to grow while Perl declined, is a vastly more welcoming culture.
Python says you know nothing, but want to automate a small task. The community will help you. More so than any other language.
Then again, Python 2 and Python 3 are two different languages.
Very few projects are willing to have such a massive migration.
- zahlman 11mo ago"Willing" is an interesting word choice. There was quite a bit of resistance in the Python world despite the clear benefits. (2.x really could not be fixed, because the semantics were fundamentally broken in many places.)
- 999900000999 11mo agoIt's open source. Any one ( and I'm sure a few have tried) can fork 2.x and keep using it. 3.x is remarkably easy , you can probably onboard a non programer to Python in a month.
- zahlman 11mo ago> Any one ( and I'm sure a few have tried) can fork 2.x and keep using it. They have tried and succeeded: https://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.7/ https://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.7/ I still consider the result "broken".