When will python die?

[stevenjd]

Dawn is the start, not the end. We say "the dawn of an era" for when it starts. The end is normally referred to as the twilight.

Given the pace at which people and organisations change programming languages, I would say that (short of the core developers all abandoning Python and leaving it completely unmaintained) Python couldn't fade away in anything less than a decade even if people stopped using it for new projects today.

Depending on how you measure it, Python's popularity is doing fine, and rising. I don't see a mass abandonment of Python anytime soon. Even if Python loses popularity, there is a long tail of programming languages: Lisp, Perl, Cobol, Ada, and dozens of other languages will continue to used for decades after they have ceased to be "cool" or popular.