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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by hatefulheart on Monday July 13, 2026 @07:57AM (#48891326)
Python was invented two years before Java and didn’t move the needle until the mid 2010s.

You are the typical mark for hype cycles. Get a clue will you.

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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by joshuamorton on Monday July 13, 2026 @08:47AM (#48891886)
Python was being used as a teaching language at flagship universities in the mid 2000s.
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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by hatefulheart on Monday July 13, 2026 @09:06AM (#48892090)
Amazing! So was Scheme.
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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by schaefer on Monday July 13, 2026 @09:20AM (#48892275)
> Python ... didn’t move the needle until the mid 2010s.

Nope. I was on a Python project in 2006 and earned a paycheck doing so.

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Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke by baq on Monday July 13, 2026 @01:06PM (#48895656)
I was getting paid doing django in 2005-2006
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