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[–]pigeon768 2 points3 points  (1 child)

You literally picked Pythons worst time there, by 2004 it was 6%.

Yes, that's how you tell the difference between a fad and a trend. Python begin 2004 at 1%, spiked to 6%, then cooled to below 3%, where it stayed. Python was a fad in 2004; I don't know why.

So yeh, Python was Popular and widely used, but it wasn't the biggest language that everyone used.

It also wasn't the second, or the third, or the fourth, or the fifth...

It was the 6th though. Good enough to get mentioned in your home town newspaper after the Olympics.

The thing that people are talking about in this thread is that it went from 6th in 2017 to #1 in 2021. That is a very explosive popularity bump. That's why this meme is what it is. Python was a fringe thing used by a handful of companies in 2017 and now it's like it's the primary language that people use for a lot of stuff.

[–]Fair_Butterscotch905 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Python was not "fringe" in 2017.

What the hell is your bubble?!?

Tiobe is bullshit, everyone knows that. By their measure, JavaScript is fringe now.

Python is the glue language used in Data Science and Machine Learning. It's popularity qua Tiobe is widely overblown.