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Actually I feel especially because of HN that Python got a boost like no other language in the last five years. It even reached our slow Berlin to recognize it
by erikb 13y ago
Actually I feel especially because of HN that Python got a boost like no other language in the last five years. It even reached our slow Berlin to recognize it as a potential alternative to Java. So I guess the hype in the rest of the world must have been quite huge.
- zorked 13y agoWhich is weird because I regard Python as very mainstream and established, even old, and I certainly live in a place that is slower than Berlin. Guess it depends on your niche.
- drawkbox 13y agoLanguages have long cycles. Python (1991), Ruby (1996), and Javascript (1995) inception dates are not that far apart. I also believe Python use has increased tremendously with HN, myself included. Ruby during the same time also fueled that (2005/6 ish), reddit being built on it possibly also sparked that. A native language takes even longer sometimes, Objective-C just really hit it's stride with Apple/Next integration and the iPhone but it was made in 1983, same year as C++. Both with very different spikes/waves of interest. From this we can see strict/native type languages in the 80's, more dynamic/scripted languages in the 90's, the ones in the last decade maybe are still in contention. All of them are pretty much products of their hardware environments at the time.
- keypusher 13y agoReddit was originally built on Lisp, but was later rewritten in Python. It was never built on Ruby.