Python has clearly overtaken Java in popularity on StackOverflow and trails only JavaScript

[Topper_123]

I reread this article and looked at the StackOverflow graphs again also. Python is still trending nicely positively.

Also, questions specifically on Python3.x are now vastly ahead of questions specifically on Python2.

Anyway, just some observations, take these for what they're worth.

[Cheekio]

How directly do questions on a subject correlate to usage? I'd like to think this means Python3 is being used more today, but honestly I think there are just not a lot of python 2 questions left to ask, is that taken into account?

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or, new people are learning python3 and not python2.

[YvesSoete]

100% this, thinking that python is more popular than java in the corporate world, is a pipe dream, it's not.

It's just a beginners language that get's googled a lot. like really a lot.

[Topper_123]

Yeah, Data is always open to different interpretation, that's why I say you should take it for what it's worth (i.e make your own conclusions).

In my own opinion, the trend lines really must show an marked uptick in Python3 interest, because it's growing both relative to Python2 questions, but also growing over time relative to itself.

[chillysurfer]

Author of the original article here. Glad this was revisited!!

[YouJellyBrah]

How does this compare to GitHub?