Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?
by Izkata on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @06:19PM
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You arbitrarily restricted the scope. Java is what I saw.
I was in college 2006 - 2010 in CS, and while all the introductory courses were in Java, by 2008 or so a lot of the other students had switched to Python on their own, for projects where either language would work. Didn't really see anything else, just Java and Python.
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?
by dylan604 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @06:36PM
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No, it wasn't arbitrary. A JIT language is much easier to pick up than something needing a compiler and an executable. The focus on a scripting language was deliberate
I was in college 2006 - 2010 in CS, and while all the introductory courses were in Java, by 2008 or so a lot of the other students had switched to Python on their own, for projects where either language would work. Didn't really see anything else, just Java and Python.