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Re:What's up in the Python community? – April 2023 by forrestthewoods on Friday April 28, 2023 @06:14PM (#35747776)
Python has exploded in popularity over the past ~7 years because of AI. Python’s ever increasingly relevance is directly tied to AI.
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Re:What's up in the Python community? – April 2023 by tomrod on Friday April 28, 2023 @06:17PM (#35747808)
And Flask, and FastAPI, and pandas, and pola.rs, and numba, and as glue code, and....

"AI" is pretty narrow, but the python ecosystem is massive, which a strong incumbency in the data processing space. Weird, since it isn't a typed language, but it sure is simple to write something quick.

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Re:What's up in the Python community? – April 2023 by twic on Friday April 28, 2023 @06:21PM (#35747837)
> "AI" is pretty narrow, but the python ecosystem is massive, which a strong incumbency in the data processing space. Weird, since it isn't a typed language

Nor is Excel, and that didn't stop it.

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Re:What's up in the Python community? – April 2023 by Tommstein on Friday April 28, 2023 @06:48PM (#35748103)
> "AI" is pretty narrow, but the python ecosystem is massive, which a strong incumbency in the data processing space. Weird, since it isn't a typed language . . . .

Having used it for over 15 years, I assure you Python is a strongly typed language.

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Re:What's up in the Python community? – April 2023 by tomrod on Friday April 28, 2023 @06:50PM (#35748119)
Fair, I was wrong. It's a dynamically typed language. I meant to say it is not a statically typed language.
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Re:What's up in the Python community? – April 2023 by forrestthewoods on Saturday April 29, 2023 @04:48PM (#35757024)
Sure. Python isn’t going away. But Python has tripled in popularity over the past 7 years and a very very large portion of that growth is due to AI, imho. [1]

So, will a given AI Python package be popular in a year or three? Maybe, maybe not. Will the top Python packages be AI related in 3 to 5 years? Absolutely, imho. I’d definitely take that bet.

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends/?tags=java%2Cc%2Cc...

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