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		sireat on Oct 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python leads Tiobe Index for first time in 20 year... Turns out being No. 2 language for all domains leads to being No. 1 What is fascinating that Classic Visual Basic jumped from 19 to 11. TIOBE is like that I've been teaching Python for the last few years and there has been a marked increase in using Python to "Automate the boring stuff". Adult students come to tell me that Pascal or C++ taught in school was just not something they could use practically, however Python is very practical across many disciplines. Of course if we could solve the deployment issue on a fresh computer...

kamaal on Oct 9, 2021 [–]

Python feature and library bloat is at late 1990s and early 2000s levels Perl these days.

This has made Python very accessible and useful to Perl refugees.

This explains the pervasive use of Python to "Automate the boring stuff".

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