<story><title>Why Is Python Growing So Quickly?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/14/python-growing-quickly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkmartinez</author><text>&amp;gt; Why Is Python Growing So Quickly?&lt;p&gt;Really easy to answer: It is stupid fun to program with Python. There are libraries for everything you can imagine and they are generally very easy to use. Once you grok the virtual environment thing, writing apps&amp;#x2F;programs&amp;#x2F;scripts is just a matter of creating a new env and installing the libs you need. Testing ideas with Jupyter notebook is fun, fast and rewarding. Pycharm is awesome. VSCode with Python just works. You can automate tons of boring stuff (Thanks Al!)... and the list goes on... and on...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpazyaquian</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re listing off tooling, libraries, and frameworks written  with or targeting Python, which isn&amp;#x27;t Python itself. As soon as you want to go off the rails in any of those things, Python gets as complicated as any other language.&lt;p&gt;My take on the matter is that Python is gaining traction due to its market share of the Data Science&amp;#x2F;Machine Learning field, which is what&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; gaining traction and growing quickly. Had Perl or Ruby been the premier language to use for DS&amp;#x2F;ML, they would be growing instead of Python.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Is Python Growing So Quickly?</title><url>https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/14/python-growing-quickly/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkmartinez</author><text>&amp;gt; Why Is Python Growing So Quickly?&lt;p&gt;Really easy to answer: It is stupid fun to program with Python. There are libraries for everything you can imagine and they are generally very easy to use. Once you grok the virtual environment thing, writing apps&amp;#x2F;programs&amp;#x2F;scripts is just a matter of creating a new env and installing the libs you need. Testing ideas with Jupyter notebook is fun, fast and rewarding. Pycharm is awesome. VSCode with Python just works. You can automate tons of boring stuff (Thanks Al!)... and the list goes on... and on...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gdulli</author><text>&amp;gt; It is stupid fun to program with Python&lt;p&gt;Around 2009 I started questioning if I even enjoyed coding anymore. I was primarily using PHP and Java. Rather than quit the profession I tried Python and suddenly it was fun again. 8 years later, it still is. Python just spoke my language.&lt;p&gt;My career is based around using Python because it&amp;#x27;s the way I enjoy the work. Everything else, like the actual properties of Python relative to other languages, is irrelevant to me if using another language would make the work unenjoyable again. (Though if Python didn&amp;#x27;t measure up very well compared to other languages it wouldn&amp;#x27;t have become my go-to in the first place.)</text></comment>