Ask HN: Is Python dying?
That may be a view through the distorted HN lenses. Spend some time on Lambda the Ultimate and you&#x27;ll think imperative programming is dying.<p>Go is new and has lots of issues. It&#x27;s annoying on many fronts and badly needs improvements in packaging area. It&#x27;s good for some things and worse for others.<p>JS is for frontend, because it&#x27;s the only supported language. (although there are python-to-js compilers available if you really want to use it)<p>Julia for data science? Only if you started recently. R, numpy&#x2F;scipy, mathematica, matlab, etc. still rule data science.<p>The projects you listed for python are fairly new. I expect half of them will be dead and forgotten in a year and other half will get more popular, but they&#x27;re not future-proofing anything. Python always had a lot of experiments going on and will likely get more of them in the future.<p>Trying to predict language popularity is like trying to play on the stockmarket. Unless you can research what&#x27;s really happening inside the biggest players (companies&#x2F;organisations) you won&#x27;t get realistic answers. Just learn what you like and what&#x27;s relatively popular. Expect you&#x27;ll need to learn something else in 5 years.<p>BTW: Go was created in 2009, julia in 2012, reasonable js (ecma5) in late 2009. Python&#x27;s around since 1991 - do you really expect it&#x27;s just going to disappear?