LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

Re:LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees by eesmith on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:19AM (#37910901)

It is hard for me to accept that historical interpretation as I started using Python back in the 1990s, when it was already making in-roads in steering high-performance computing codes. NumPy's roots date from that era.

In 2002 it seemed that half the attendees of the Python conference were there because of Zope.

I was programming full-time by 1999.

So for me Python was well-established in several areas far before its wide-spread use in computer programming education or its use in data science.

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Re:LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees by DaiPlusPlus on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @07:03AM (#37913142)

I never had any exposure to HPC, scientific or numerical computing, even through university and in my career - that world is still comparatively silo'd off from the wider dev ecosystem IME; I know you are correct in what you say, but I imagine Millennials like myself (who were still in middle-school when you were using Python professionally) only ever saw Python in less serious applications.

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