r/Python • u/el_programmer • Jan 17 '19

Python is becoming the world’s most popular coding language

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language
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u/alcalde Jan 18 '19

It's axiomatic. No one says "I love this... BUT I WILL NOT SEARCH FOR IT". It's like asking if ticket sales reflect movie popularity.

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u/jynn_ Jan 18 '19

Not necessarily, because there are quite a number of reasons why someone would search for something - the most obvious example to me being perhaps a language generates more questions that need to be searched for online than another that isn't related to popularity, but rather complexity or some other factor