Ask HN: Is python still worth spending time learning and teaching?

Re:Ask HN: Is python still worth spending time learning and ... by nostrademons on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @12:13AM (#9301542)

Python is used very extensively in scientific computing, it's used a bunch in data science, it's often used for build or shell scripts by sysadmins or SREs, and it's used extensively by entrepreneurs for prototyping software systems.

Web development is an interesting and very visible profession because the people who do it talk a lot about it on the web (naturally enough), and it's true that JS and Rails are somewhat more popular for it. But in terms of the breadth of what you can do with Python, it's a lot more.

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Re:Ask HN: Is python still worth spending time learning and ... by pjungwir on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @12:18PM (#9304721)

I agree re data science. If you're doing statistics or machine learning (one huge industry there is finance), Python is unrivaled. I do mostly Rails, and I'm very happy there, but I've thought about learning more Django just so it's easier to incorporate Python ML code, and also because a lot of the companies with interesting ML work are using Python for everything else too.

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