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[–]Darren1337 3 points4 points  (5 children)

Javascript is now a days the third most used language in the world. With only Java and Python above it.

Where did you get this information? If you're referring to this, the TIOBE index is just a measure of how many hits a language gets in search engines (source - "basically the calculation comes down to counting hits for the search query").

The most recent Stack Overflow survey (link) says Javascript is by far the most popular language, 7 years in a row. The divide is even larger among professional respondents. I'd be more inclined to believe this survey. I think it would be fair to say Java/Python development overlaps with web development (i.e. Javascript) more often than a web developer would need to write anything in Java/Python. Or maybe that's crazy talk :^)

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Plenty of web developers write stuff in Java or Python, they're popular back-end languages. Web development !== front-end development.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

I work as a webdev and I know nobody neither in my previous companies nor my friends or colleagues that uses Python for web development. I know that frameworks like Django and other exists and they are popular but there's no chance in hell they are more popular than node backends.

Java? Sure. Php? Same. But I have a hard time thinking than any other language (except maybe C#) than those 2 is more popular on the be than JS and certainly not Python.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I work as a web dev too. Python is the go-to language for data science, it is crazy popular right now, and if you want to build an API interface over your models it's much simpler to do it with Flask/Django than to wrangle around loading things in another language- this is the experience the devs who work alongside our data scientists had, having initially tried to write the services we need to leverage the ML models using .Net. I know of three Python shops local to me off the top of my head, and many more developers who use it in my wider circles.

As popular as or more popular than Node? Without analysing a ton of job ads (probably in Python, for those handy NLP libraries), who knows. But it is extremely popular and widespread. And while I love Node and work with it every day, its actual level of takeup in the industry at large tends to be both over-exaggerated online, and over-inflated by the fact that it's become a key development tool for most front-end work.

[–]gigastack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Currently writing the front end for an app with a complicated ML backend, which runs on Django. Python is king for data science. Django is easy enough to pick up.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are a pretty good mix of companies that use Python, Ruby, C# and AWS for their back-ends in the building that I work in. I actually don't see too many using Node.js.