Good idea, at the company I work at we discussed using Scala as our primary language because technically it is slightly stronger than python but ultimately chose python in the end as it’s easier for other devs to be on boarded to our platform and future hiring for the team etc would be easier
On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 at 12:20 PM, Hyukjin Kwon <gurwls...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 I like this idea too. > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 6:00 AM Allan Folting <afolting...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I would like to propose that we show Python code examples first in the >> Spark documentation where we have multiple programming language examples. >> An example is on the Quick Start page: >> https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/quick-start.html >> >> I propose this change because Python has become more popular than the >> other languages supported in Apache Spark. There are a lot more users of >> Spark in Python than Scala today and Python attracts a broader set of new >> users. >> For Python usage data, see https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ and >> https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=r%2Cscala%2Cpython%2Cjava. >> >> Also, this change aligns with Python already being the first tab on our >> home page: >> https://spark.apache.org/ >> >> Anyone who wants to use another language can still just click on the >> other tabs. >> >> I created a draft PR for the Spark SQL, DataFrames and Datasets Guide >> page as a first step: >> https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/40087 >> >> >> I would appreciate it if you could share your thoughts on this proposal. >> >> >> Thanks a lot, >> Allan Folting >> >
