I'm not convinced that the stats you cite about Python are statistically meaningful over a one-year period (2.45% decline?). But it seems to me that on the web the key issue is browser integration. JavaScript is the default language of the web because browsers all interpret it internally. PHP, you'll notice, also saw a small decline in these stats. I think that's related to the desire to do as much as possible in the browser (client-side). As long as that is the push, and as long as Python doesn't have client-side support built-in, it will always be in a second-class position on the web. I actually think that one of the strengths of Python is that it doesn't have to run on a server--it can work equally well with a native local interpreter. But so far in web development we have treated it as a drop-in replacement for PHP (and so as server-dependent) rather than as a language to run locally on the client.
That said, I think the expansion of the Python web ecosystem beyond Django can't but help the language's profile. This is not to slam Django, but as long as a language is perceived as a one-framework show (like Ruby and rails) it will tend to have trouble making converts. Ian On Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:42:08 AM UTC-4, Ovidio Marinho wrote: > > The fall of the python's fault Django and Python 3.0? > http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html > > > > > Ovidio Marinho Falcao Neto > Web Developer > [email protected] > [email protected] > ITJP - itjp.net.br > 83 8826 9088 - Oi > 83 9334 0266 - Claro > Brasil > > >
