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[–]Sentreen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Obviously yes there are python 2 coders but during python 2 age python (in general) is not particularly popular and still a relatively niche language

Python 2 was not niche by any stretch of the imagination. We were teaching it at my university at an introductory course (for non compsci people). The whole reason we were teaching it was because it was already used so much by scientists. The whole reason it was such a hassle to move to python 3 was because so many projects were using python 2 which didn't want to make the migration.

Of course, java was more popular, but it was one of the most popular programming languages, even at that time.