IMO python and its popularity is somewhat split between a scripting language, maybe a R alternative, with a data science focus on one hand. On the other hand is python as a web dev language with Django and flask as the popular frameworks.
We're looking to hire on the web Dev side [0]. We do get a number of people who have more of a scripting focus, but limited web Dev experience. I think some of that comes because of the online MOOC phenomenon and the proliferation of python courses that are really python scripting (not python web dev) courses.
I'm curious what the HN community thinks of my hypothesis of that split and if the "incredible growth" is one-sided as a scripting language.
We're looking to hire on the web Dev side [0]. We do get a number of people who have more of a scripting focus, but limited web Dev experience. I think some of that comes because of the online MOOC phenomenon and the proliferation of python courses that are really python scripting (not python web dev) courses.
I'm curious what the HN community thinks of my hypothesis of that split and if the "incredible growth" is one-sided as a scripting language.
[0] https://www.simplelegal.com/careers?gh_jid=678936