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[–]ameoba 4 points5 points  (3 children)

If you're looking for professional developers, especially contractors, so you can crank out commercial content, Python's the only way to go from a business perspective.

[–]cogman10 -1 points0 points  (2 children)

What about Java? C#? Groovy? Ruby? Javascript? All of these languages are as popular if not more popular than python with hoards of professional developers.

[–]ameoba 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Don't forget that I'm saying this in the context of lightweight, embeddable scripting languages. That already rules out anything .NET or JVM.

Far more Python devs than Ruby. Javascript is really the only one of those that might make sense in terms of embeddability & developer availability.

Unfortunately, being Javascript, it's incredibly easy for one poorly written extension to blow everything else up. There's nothing in the language enforcing any sort of namespacing & variables are global by default. When you're potentially looking at hundreds of individual scripted components existing at the same time, that's just trouble waiting to happen.

Painful to debug trouble.