Comment by nyokodo
4 years ago
> around 2004 or earlier when he was writing it.
That’s the year Ruby on Rails was released and exploded in popularity. Python wasn’t gone but it suddenly didn’t seem like the rocket ship waiting to launch like it had. I was surprised and delighted with how it has grown in popularity since but it didn’t look good in the mid 2000s.
Agreed. If I remember correctly, the infighting because of the 2 vs 3 debacle didn't help much.
Luckily, the 2 vs 3 debacle started to sort itself out just in time for the explosion of data science and machine learning software, almost all based on python APIs.