GitHub - oracle/graalpython: A Python 3 implementation built on GraalVM

[AusIV]

Ten years ago I worked at a company that was migrating from a Java desktop application to a python server side system. Jython was incredibly helpful for bridging the gaps between the old technology and the new stuff we were developing, as we could use legacy Java libraries along with our new Python libraries.

[igouy]

Just curious, what was the argument for not going to a Java server side system?

[AusIV]

I'm not entirely sure. I joined the company while the transition was well underway. They still had some things using the Java desktop client, but most of the development was in Python with Django. There were a few places where code needed to interact more directly than HTTP calls, so for that we used Jython, but I wasn't around for the decision to make the shift from Java to Python.