66
Why Is Python So Popular in 2025? (blog.jetbrains.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
88 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Presumably because it minimizes developer time in writing code and is easy to use and it come with great libraries. That is why I have been using it since 1998.

Edit: People use to think I was crazy using Python. It was interesting seeing people slowly get a clue over the years.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 11 child comments
    •
  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)
    [deleted]
  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 10 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    That doesn't sound like much of a "gotcha". The requirements for small stuff and big stuff are drastically different.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
    •
  • [+] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)
    [deleted]
  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    ...and people use MS Excel as a database, it's not the fault of the tech that people force things to do things they're not designed for.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Reason I started using Python. C takes too much effort, Excel VBA is nut over 100 lines. Matlab or Python would be the next step. Matlab is nuts too in many ways.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I started doing CS50 way back when and pretty much bailed when it got to C. I could understand it but it felt like I had to build the entire universe to do the simplest of things.

    I like that with Python I can knock something together quickly enough to justify the time it takes. Having to do something manual and repetitious at work? Knock out a Python script to make it less error prone in future. If it took a lot of time I'd just have to suck it up and suffer through.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
    • load more comments (-1 replies)