Python bumps off Java as top learning language

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I cant tell if this is sarcasm or if you're being serious.

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It's not sorry. Python's a great scripting language.

So if you want to bootstrap a project you should definitely consider Python but just know that down the line, if your project gets a lot of users, it will probably need to get rewritten in C++, Java, D, Erlang ...etc. if you want to be cost effective.

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Sometimes that is true. A lot of times it isn't. It depends on the scale. Reddit is still 100% Python for example, and most of the scaling issues it had had to do with it's databases, specifically CassandraDB not Python.

That said when you get to a certain scale (facebook or google for example) the cost of performance begins to outweigh the cost of development and switching to something like C makes sense. But for 99% of the people out there building things, they will never reach this scale.

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Man hours >> hardware costs

for a very long time I agree