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Why Is Python So Popular in 2025? (blog.jetbrains.com)
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[–] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

Presumably because it minimizes developer time in writing code and is easy to use and it come with great libraries. That is why I have been using it since 1998.

Edit: People use to think I was crazy using Python. It was interesting seeing people slowly get a clue over the years.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    It minimizes greenfield development time and increases it later for anything at scale. It's the mongodb of programming languages.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    That doesn't sound like much of a "gotcha". The requirements for small stuff and big stuff are drastically different.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Good thing python only gets used for small stuff then /s

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    ...and people use MS Excel as a database, it's not the fault of the tech that people force things to do things they're not designed for.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    You seem to think I'm saying python shouldn't be used at when all I said was it increases development time for projects at scale.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Fair enough, it read to me as a "gotcha" (as in "if python is do great then why can't it..."). I've spent too much time on places like Reddit where every interaction is three seconds from becoming a knife fight!

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Reason I started using Python. C takes too much effort, Excel VBA is nut over 100 lines. Matlab or Python would be the next step. Matlab is nuts too in many ways.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I started doing CS50 way back when and pretty much bailed when it got to C. I could understand it but it felt like I had to build the entire universe to do the simplest of things.

    I like that with Python I can knock something together quickly enough to justify the time it takes. Having to do something manual and repetitious at work? Knock out a Python script to make it less error prone in future. If it took a lot of time I'd just have to suck it up and suffer through.

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