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0 pointscmrdporcupine9y ago0 comments

I was programming in Python in 1996 and struggled to find anyone to pay me to work in it. Meanwhile it's now 2017 and it's only now a fully mainstream language for the last 5 years or so.

It takes a while.

(I lost interest in Python in early 2000s, and then it got popular. So if I lose interest in Rust it's bound to get popular.)

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i336_9y ago

Curious what language you generally turn to - or in the likely case of multiple languages, what you use each for.

In particular, what do you turn to for the kinds of things others would use Python for?

golergka9y ago

Are you saying that Python wasn't a mainstream language in 2012?

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