Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?
by tshaddox on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @06:12PM
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> I think Python was popular as a general-purpose language first.
That matches my memory as well. I can't find any references, but I seem to remember a quote going around way back circa 2008 that goes something like "Ruby is popular because it's the language used to write Rails; Django is popular because it's written in Python."
That matches my memory as well. I can't find any references, but I seem to remember a quote going around way back circa 2008 that goes something like "Ruby is popular because it's the language used to write Rails; Django is popular because it's written in Python."