Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?
by mattferderer on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @05:39PM
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I think that data science & web competition is at least 80% but I'm going to throw out a few possible ideas that I haven't seen mentioned that may have helped. Maybe I'm way off base though.
* Udacity's popularity. It's first few free courses were Python. I believe they advertised as a way to get into Google. Not sure how many people got into Google via Udacity though.
* Leet Code Job Interviews. Maybe I'm way off here as I don't do these but from what I've read people who spend a lot of time on these prefer Python because the syntax & libraries often give a speed & simplicity advantage.
* Lots of devs had to install Python to use some utility or tool someone else created.
* Udacity's popularity. It's first few free courses were Python. I believe they advertised as a way to get into Google. Not sure how many people got into Google via Udacity though.
* Leet Code Job Interviews. Maybe I'm way off here as I don't do these but from what I've read people who spend a lot of time on these prefer Python because the syntax & libraries often give a speed & simplicity advantage.
* Lots of devs had to install Python to use some utility or tool someone else created.