Why Python keeps growing, explained
Python keeps growing in number of users because it’s easy to get started, has libraries to load basically any data, and to perform any task. It’s frequently the second best language but it’s the second best language for anything.<p>By the time a python programmer has «graduated» to learning a second language, exponential growth has created a bunch of new python programmers, most of which don’t consider themselves programmers.<p>There are more non-programmers in this world, and they don’t care - or know about - concurrency, memory efficiency, L2 cache misses due to pointer chasing. These people all use python. This seems to be a perspective missing from most hackernews discussions, where people work on high performance Big corp big data web scale systems.