Numbers aren't supporting me as well :D https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=python,javascript - somehow JS is dying while Python is thriving
But my point is, I loved App Engine because it was agile and practical, with JS and the new unleashed services, the experience is just incredible, apart from the regular flexibility, no more python platform-specific bugs and quirks to constantly chase, you have npm and your package.json and it just works anywhere! However the new services aren't designed and documented as well, a concrete example is NodeJS datastore and the "Already Exists" exception, in the docs that I've read a while ago, there was no exception handling, it's not that hard to manually reproduce this exception and handle it, but still, it would be nice to have all the exception codes in one place, as the new JS library isn't really transactional like ndb was, it doesn't auto retry etc. - so most of the implementation is up to the user now - and after experiencing the Python2/NDB era and that masterpiece level design, the new JS counterparts just make you want to cry On Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 9:36:20 PM UTC+3 Alex Martelli wrote: > On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 10:47 PM Kaan <kaan...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > >> And a plug: Python in my opinion is dying, while JS / NodeJS is thriving >> > > According to TIOBE <https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/>, in October > Python was language #3 in terms of popularity (behind Java and C); in > November, it vaulted to first place, "end[ing] C and Java's 20-year reign > atop the TIOBE index" as TechRepublic > <https://www.techrepublic.com/article/python-ends-c-and-javas-20-year-reign-atop-the-tiobe-index/> > > titled their article -- "just one more feather in Python's ever-plumier > hat", as their subtitle has it, and "Python's latest win is just another in > its long line of toppling long-standing language leaders", as they write in > the body of the article (Python is also the most popular programming > language according to the IEEE study > <https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages/>, the most "wanted" > language according to StackOverflow's survey > <https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020?_ga=2.31720439.838943186.1636482643-1935826983.1636482643#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-languages-wanted>, > > the "AI lingua franca" according to datanami > <https://www.datanami.com/2021/05/26/three-reasons-python-is-the-ai-lingua-franca/>, > > and so forth). Javascript is #7 on TIOBE's list and #5 on the IEEE's, by > the way. > > Alex > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/7a5cd18a-ecc4-423b-9920-b78db019ac7bn%40googlegroups.com.
