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The Incredible Growth of #Python - #StackOverflow Blog

This #data is just awesome. Python is literally on fire, in a good way! In the "high-income" countries, on Stack Overflow, which is pretty much the de-facto for #programming knowledge, Python has overtaken not just #Java, but #JavaScript too, in terms of visits to questions. Before anyone says "wait that isn't a measurement of absolute popularity!". Nothing is, but this is a very strong metric to me, among the many that indicate Python is #trending trending and trending.

Good time to be a Python #developer!

Some quotes from the article:

June 2017 was the first month that Python was the most visited tag on Stack Overflow within high-income nations. This included being the most visited tag within the US and the UK, and in the top 2 in almost all other high income nations (next to either Java or JavaScript). This is especially impressive because in 2012, it was less visited than any of the other 5 languages, and has grown by 2.5-fold in that time.

With a 27% year-over year-growth rate, Python stands alone as a tag that is both large and growing rapidly; the next-largest tag that shows similar growth is R. We see that traffic to most other large tags has stayed pretty steady within high-income countries, with visits to Android, iOS, and PHP decreasing slightly.

Outside of high-income countries Python is still the fastest growing major programming language; it simply started at a lower level and the growth began two years later (in 2014 rather than 2012). In fact, the year-over-year growth rate of Python in non-high-income countries is slightly higher than it is in high-income countries.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/06/incredible-growth-python/