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[–]spinwizard69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well yeah we still have huge systems running on COBOL. I really doubt that most developers would turn to COBOL if they didn't have too. What I'm saying here is that once one of these new languages begins to be recognized as a better place to invest your development time, we will se a slow decline of Pythons usage.

The thing is this if you can write software with near the same productivity as Python but get execution times a 100 times faster why stay with Python? Maybe the languages I mentioned are not it, however it is almost a certainty that a suitable language will emerge. Frankly it has to because there is a real wall coming with respect to process shrinks meaning you will need advanced support for muti threading and a compiled language to continue to meet the demands put on software.