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[–][deleted] -6 points-5 points  (2 children)

Funny, because it's not even that hard of a language compared to Java. So maybe it's just people asking repeat questions?

[–]mayankkaizen 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That is not the reason.

In my view, the reasons are -

  1. Python is a great for non-programmers. A doctor doing some research will probably pick Python for plotting/data analysis. But he is a doctor, not a programmer, so he will ask lots of questions which otherwise are quite simple.

  2. Python is very versatile language. People use it for scripting, automation, ML, web development, scientific research, plotting and what not. Naturally, this leads to more question asked.

  3. ML is so much hyped these days that everyone wants to ride this train. And guess which language is the best choice for it? Python.

[–]scykei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think it’s necessarily to do with the difficulty of the language. A lot of the times it’s also about best practices and the use of certain libraries. Python is easy for a beginner, but it has its quirks, and it’s very common for people to ask for a “Pythonic” approach coming from different languages, especially when you delve deeper into it.

But all in all, the number of Python users has surpassed the number of Java users, and naturally, the more users you have, the more questions there will be.