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Python received much of its latest praise from introductory level college students that haven't done much programming other than "import numpy". I've used python and sure i like it better than other "bad languages" but when you look around in the real world you see that it's not the best or the most popular choice.

- cloud/ops space has moved to Go

- Java/C# are overall better languages and more productive environments than python for large scale services.

- A million websites still use php and the community is thriving. Billion-dollar companies use ruby to transact billions of dollars (stripe,shopify).

- Js is eating the world

Python found its niche in AI/ML space and sure is a great language but that's it?




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