not to diss any language(s) but ... On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Kevin LaTona <li...@studiosola.com> wrote:
> > Yet Python, continues to be at the top of the most popular languages, even > above Javascript and Ruby and only behind the C's and Php. > http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html yes, python is above both javascript and ruby though Personally I find Python to be a delightfully, clean, fun and robust > language, that just clears out so much of the clutter to allow one to just > write code to get the job done. > I should plug http://www.jython.org/ also while I am at it :) > When I've visited a Seattle Ruby or Javascript user meetings, they can > have 50 to 100 people showing up month after month, no problem. > Where as any of the Seattle Python meetings average 10 to 15 and the > largest one was about 30 people. > Seattle based Python company's just are not as active at supporting the > local community to help foster and grow the local user segments as the JS > or Ruby companies are I guess. > web apps are popular and startups prefer RoR for various reasons so there's more people going to the meetups imo > cheers, Nimret
