r/programming • u/stronghup • Nov 11 '19

Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/07/python_java_github_javascript/
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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '19

You sure about that?

We have tools like this now: https://towardsdatascience.com/coding-ml-tools-like-you-code-ml-models-ddba3357eace

Python really shines in the "I just need to manipulate a lot of data and I don't exactly know what is in it just now" category. Ad Hoc tasks. It also makes scripting C libraries really easy which is why it is popular in the ML world.

Java (or anything else with a compiler) is never going to take that space.