On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 5:27 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu>: > >> On 9/9/2017 6:31 AM, Pavol Lisy wrote: >>> Interesting reading: >>> https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/06/incredible-growth-python/?cb=1 >> >> So much for Python 3 having killed python ;-) > > Hasn't yet, but it would have been interesting to see the 2/3 divide in > the stats. > > One shouldn't get complacent. Ten years ago Nokia had a 40% global > market share in cell phones. Now they're gone. > > The clouds I see looming over Python's head are: > > * 2-to-3 migration
If that was going to kill Python, it would have had some impact by now. There are students learning Python *today* who are never going to have to worry about the migration, because they're learning Python 3. > * static type annotation I'm not seeing very much of this in the wild yet, but honestly, it's not that big a deal. You can ignore it if you want to. > * asyncio with its a-dialect Actually, I think this one is a huge enough feature that it's going to be a big thing to *drive* the uptake of Python. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
