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Re:Python for Android by toyg on Thursday August 08, 2013 @01:19PM (#6180330)
Check wikipedia: Android was bought by Google, not created. Also, a critical element of its success was adoption by partners: in this context, preferring Java (very much the "enterprise language") over Python (hackish open-source language with minuscule enterprise presence) was a no-brainer -- hence the "it's political" answer Guido himself got from the upper echelons.

As a python-aficionado, I stopped kidding myself a few years ago: Python will never be mainstream in the way Java or C# are, the number of people working with it will always be small, unless something dramatic happens at the commercial level. It's like Linux on the desktop: the masses are simply elsewhere.

Re:Python for Android by simonh on Thursday August 08, 2013 @04:47PM (#6181781)
Trust me, Python is doing very well at Enterprise scale. Here's a taster of what it's about in the below links, which are public information, but the Quartz platform is huge. I wish I was at liberty to discuss it in more depth. If you're keen on Python and willing to work hard, it's worth considering Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

https://us.pycon.org/2013/schedule/presentation/155/

http://careers.bankofamerica.com/JobDetails.aspx?SearchPage=...

Re:Python for Android by broseph on Thursday August 08, 2013 @08:02PM (#6182834)
Take this with a grain of salt. I found working on Quartz to be much more miserable than any other platform I've ever worked with. Of course, that had to do with a lot of factors that weren't related to the language.
Re:Python for Android by sentenza on Thursday August 08, 2013 @03:45PM (#6181356)
Im saddened by this. But on the other hand, our good friend Oracle is trying to change it by trying to motivate developers to search for a non-Java language.