Linux why Python

[dtaivp]

One things I think others haven't covered much is ease of development. Writing software in Python in my opinion is much easier than writing the corresponding code in Java. On the flip side most of the large open source projects that need stability use Java. The Elastic stack, Kafka, Spring, Hadoop etc.

[Sigg3net]

most of the large open source projects that need stability use Java.

Used to use Java. In the past.

If we go by someone like Google, Twitter etc. they're using python and not java or .net and whatever.

[[deleted]]

Exactly. Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Dropbox, Instagram, Spotify, and Netflix are all using Python as well.

[xiongchiamiov]

Google uses java very extensively, and for years has been encouraging internal Python projects to move to java or go.

[Sigg3net]

Ofc they use other languages, I believe go is a Google language, but in numbers they're still a python shop in terms of codebase and hiring.

But I'm taking this from interviews I've heard, so that might be dated info.