On Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:18:57 -0700, Rick Johnson wrote: > My suspicion is that not only are the overall numbers of Python > programmers on the decline
Python's popularity went up from #5 to #4 between March 2017 and 2018 on TIOBE: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ But of course Rick knows this, and ignores it: > i pay absolutely zero attention to the TIOBI index Python's popularity on StackOverflow is also rapidly rising: https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/06/incredible-growth-python/ and according to the article: "With a 27% year-over year-growth rate, Python stands alone as a tag that is *both large and growing rapidly*" (emphasis in the original). Measuring popularity by google searches not only puts Python at #2 (behind only Java) but also the most rapidly increasing language: https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html (trend of +5.4% since March 2017 -- the next highest were Typescript and R at +0.4% each). Over the last five years, Python's popularity has grown the most (12.5%). RedMonk finds Python at #3 in the first quarter of 2018: http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2018/03/07/language-rankings-1-18/ This blog post is a few years ago, but it helps show the incredible success of Python, not just among students, but also professionals: https://thenewstack.io/popularity-python-java-world/ Reddit's /ruby subreddit: 40,571 subscribers. Reddit's /python subreddit: 230,858 subscribers. Yeah, it's clear that Python is in deep, deep trouble. /sarcasm -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
