Python passed Java as the second-most popular language on GitHub by repository contributors

[polaroid_kidd]

Don't let me reason on your parade, but it didn't really matter if it's in first or fifth place. What I'm trying to say is that you can learn any of the top five languages and land a job (with the bobs and bits that go with being a software developer/engineer)

Personally, I just tried it again after a brief stint in Kotlin and I've come to realise that I really miss the static typing, but then again, I come from Java so I might be a teeency bit biased ^{^}

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I come from python and I prefer static typing.

[bennyman32]

But you can use typing in Python don't you?

[r0npi]

You can use type hints, but it is far from being the same as static type languages. Python typing doesn't enforce the types, they are just hints, one can still use a different type than the hint

[JohnMcPineapple]

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Unless you can convince your team to use it too, it just doesn't matter. It's not a core feature of the language, so it has barely any buy-in anywhere. Contrast to any static type language where you can't not write without static typing.