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I wonder where most people go from python? As has been mentioned in other threads (specifically the comments on Ian Bicking's recent blog post) many seem to be
by boothead 13y ago
I wonder where most people go from python? As has been mentioned in other threads (specifically the comments on Ian Bicking's recent blog post) many seem to be moving on. Where are you all going? Personally after having been a python dev for a long time, I now self identify as a Haskeller (although I'd certainly still use python for many tasks over Haskell). I find Haskell to be as mind expanding now as python was when I taught myself to code ~10 years ago.
I've seen others mention clojure and go as jumping off points. So, those of you who feel you have "moved on" from python, where would you say you hang your digital hat nowadays?
- the_mitsuhiko 13y agoI think lots of people in the Python community are very good at what they are doing and just adjust to whatever the new situation requires. There are lots of Python people that made a move to the JVM after they outgrew their Python environments. There are many that are now writing lots of Go and JavaScript. I don't think people "move on", they just also start using more than one programming language. A few years ago Python + C was all you needed. Now you need to deal with JavaScript if you want it or not, often there is Ruby involved because of deployment tools, there is more and more Go code, Java became popular in the same community etc.
- boothead 13y agoYes, move on wasn't really the right terminology perhaps I really meant embrace as well :-)
- lmm 13y agoI've moved on to Scala. I never liked the lack of typing in Python, but I thought it was the price one paid for an expressive, low-noise language; then I discovered it was possible to have it all.