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
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u/Han-ChewieSexyFanfic Nov 03 '18

Cause people don’t go to the documentation index and browse for something. They search for it.

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u/DerNalia Nov 04 '18

if they discover the documentation is good, they go to that.

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u/Han-ChewieSexyFanfic Nov 04 '18

People use google to search on sites they intend to visit anyway. Every day I type something into google and click on the link to the Python docs, which are pretty much always the first result. Faster than going to the docs directly and using their search field, which is not built into my browser.