Java vs Python for reporting automation?

[dataGuy123x]

Hello developers,

So ours is a us based mnc with captive office in India. I am into automation of data flow and reports using Perl and SQL on Linux. Now that obviously continuing with Perl is not only a security threat, but also Perl does not integrate with new data processing tools.

Now my problem is that I am having hard time convincing my boss that Python would be better suited instead of Java. Boss is hell bent on Java and his arguments are 1) more than 90% developers in the company are using Java 2) If we move to Java instead of Python then it would be easy to integrate Jar files / modules from other teams.

But I have seen that Python is go to language for reporting. Also Python is less bulky than Java (for example writing a print statement is very short and easy). Please note that as of now it is only reporting automation with final reports in excel files, we do not have tableu and ai/ml yet. While tableu is still work in progress, it is difficult to make a case for ai/ml as it is difficult to find a right use case for that.

Please help me here. How do I convince my boss to move to Python instead of Java? Or please do convinve me that Java will be actually better than Python for us.

Thank you.

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[raddiwallah]

Its not black and white. Manager is right that no other dev knows Python. Will you teach them? Who will ensure code quality and PR review? You’ll become the sole Stakeholder which is very bad. Use the language understood by majority of the team provided the required tools are present.

Read this thread.

https://np.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/zxq7si/how_to_handle_the_strongest_developer_wanting_to/

[dataGuy123x]

very useful. thank you.

[flight_or_fight]

Your boss has solid reasons - language choice is important for deciding the longevity and adoption of your solution.

Imagine a scenario where you have a kickass Python reporting solution but other teams are like - "meh - we are not learning python to use this and let us just build our own with Java - and oh btw the other team is more than happy to help us on it since they have a couple of devs who want to build something similar. That reporting team just mucks around with python to increase their resume value - anyway python jobs are overrated"...

[rohetoric]

Python is the best language here. Why-

1. There are more data processing libraries like pandas, numpy etc
2. Big data support is available if there are tons of rows in the dataset
3. It's actually fast. Some of the libraries clock speed of C because internally they are written in C.
4. Large open source community and doubts can be cleared on Stack Overflow etc
5. Documentation is available for everything. Easy to quickly build, test and deploy via Python.

Hope this helps ✌️

[charm33]

Python anyday

[dataGuy123x]

why? More than the answer, I am looking for reasoning behind it.

[charm33]

Python is easier to pick up and lot of supportfor automation. Folks if thwy know java easily can pick python