Python overtakes Java, JavaScript as most popular programming language for first time...

I often wonder how programmers pick their "favorite". I actually learned on COBAL and still do a little bit of it today. Aside from all the WYSWYG stuff, the old language can do just about it all. So, using myself as an example I wonder is Python more popular now because that's what most are learning on or is it really that much better?

Sort of like what computer you grew up with. The old IBM vs. Apple is still alive and well although there are a lot of converts to Linux too ... so which is better? Doubtful there will ever be one "best" answer, it's all a matter of preference .... but how you got that preference is something everyone should question if no better reason than checking your decision .....
Well, I'm like Java but Python is too easy to learn as compared to Java. At least, In my experience, I spent less time learning Python than Java.
 
Congratulations! As computers spread everywhere, more people find that they can be more productive with a little programming experience, and Python gives them that **productivity** quickly.
 
Pretty sure .NET has been superseded at least once...
No, .NET superseded .NET Framework, which ended with 4.8. What is now .NET used to be called .NET Core, but Microsoft dropped the 'Core' and bumped the version number to 5 to avoid confusion with .NET Framework.
 
Python is popular because it's easy to learn and easy to write a ton of code in it.

As long as you don't use classes. Then you start vomiting, which can decrease your coding performance.

And then one day you decide to change the code. That's the moment you realize you should never write more than 500 lines of Python code per module. Because modifying Python code and making it work afterwards is a nightmare.

It's original purpose was to serve for simple scripting. You should use it instead of BASH scripts. But since everyone wants to be a programmer nowadays, and Python is easiest to learn, we suddenly got tons of "programmers" who only know how to code in Python. And so, they started writing everything in Python. Hopefully, not the nuclear missile guidance software. Hopefully.

Oh, did you know Python is the most popular lang for artificial intelligence? Yeah. Now you know why machines get mad in the future and kill all the humans. First, because someone changed a single line of code in a file called "obedience.py" and secondly because machines got angry when they figured out we wrote their "intelligence" in such a crappy language...
 
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I remember fast load times for webpages. Now theres so much scripting and crap attached - it's all gone to hell. JavaScript has improved significantly but people ain't got any idea about usage. Languages are created with intent and purpose, and are heavily misused. I've seen Python, read some history about it and it's just really a fad language to me. I've coded in many languages and probably felt most at home with Perl. Reaching an expert level in a language has its rewards, but thinking that you created efficient code until someone pointed out you could do it better, now that is when it starts getting crazy.
 
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