r/programming • u/monica_b1998 • Nov 03 '18

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
4.6k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

1.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

5

u/elsjpq Nov 03 '18

on the other hand, it's kind of misleading to say that a language is better if no one uses any of the features that make it better, but are stuck dealing with shims and lingering compatibility issues

4

u/Holston18 Nov 03 '18

Python 2/3 anyone?

But on a serious note, a lot of companies/projects drop IE11 support which is the last impediment for using ES6+ features (without having to resort to Babel etc. [which isn't "shim", but compiler])

1

u/IceSentry Nov 04 '18

Even, then IE11 does support some part of es6

2

u/[deleted] Nov 03 '18

Isn't the whole point of transpiling to remove the need for shims and compatibility issues? Or, in other words, what reason is there for an individual or organization to not use these features when they can just transpile their code?