I was using python with SCons back when it came out, sí around 2000. I was also surprised at the statement that python wasn’t well known, but I agree that the Java web scene was much more mature. It was, however, very focused on configuration. There was nothing like LAMP getting people up and running in under a minute.
ASP was also a favorite of the early web.
Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015)
by decompiled_dev on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:01AM
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This reminded me of Paul Graham's Python Paradox:
http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
Seems like Python is now in the camp of Java now given the current trends.
Wikipedia says Rails was released in Dec 2005.
Rails was popular before anyone ever heard of Django. Rails jobs were already common when it reached 1.0 at the end of 2005 (In early 2006 a law firm offered me $30 to do rails work as a summer job off campus). Django took another couple years before reaching 1.0, though I did do work for some early adopters (0.95) circa summer 2006.
I was an early Python adopter (1995/1996) and could not for the life of me find anybody who would consider letting me use it in 'mainstream' commercial software projects. Then all the sudden about 10 years ago it exploded in popularity big time.
But I'd moved on to working on other things by then, I no longer enjoy writing in Python.
Wow, this sounds like the classic "I was into that band before they popular" indie snob, hah!