+1 Good idea! On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 7:41 AM Jack Goodson <jackagood...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good idea, at the company I work at we discussed using Scala as our > primary language because technically it is slightly stronger than python > but ultimately chose python in the end as it’s easier for other devs to be > on boarded to our platform and future hiring for the team etc would be > easier > > On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 at 12:20 PM, Hyukjin Kwon <gurwls...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> +1 I like this idea too. >> >> On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 6:00 AM Allan Folting <afolting...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I would like to propose that we show Python code examples first in the >>> Spark documentation where we have multiple programming language examples. >>> An example is on the Quick Start page: >>> https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/quick-start.html >>> >>> I propose this change because Python has become more popular than the >>> other languages supported in Apache Spark. There are a lot more users of >>> Spark in Python than Scala today and Python attracts a broader set of new >>> users. >>> For Python usage data, see https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ and >>> https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=r%2Cscala%2Cpython%2Cjava >>> . >>> >>> Also, this change aligns with Python already being the first tab on our >>> home page: >>> https://spark.apache.org/ >>> >>> Anyone who wants to use another language can still just click on the >>> other tabs. >>> >>> I created a draft PR for the Spark SQL, DataFrames and Datasets Guide >>> page as a first step: >>> https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/40087 >>> >>> >>> I would appreciate it if you could share your thoughts on this proposal. >>> >>> >>> Thanks a lot, >>> Allan Folting >>> >>
