What? The kids? I see young people using python more than any other language by FAR. What region are you? I've seen this through the northeast and midwest United States.
Pretty sure it's the other way around - Python used to be something that was "not useful in the day job" and mostly about tinkering. This has changed dramatically over time, so Python is now a lot more popular.
Python's popularity has grown pretty steadily over decades. It retains users because of its merits and became popular in multiple niches more or less independently.
Do you have solid numbers that confirm your claim that Python is becoming less popular?
This is a honest question, in my environment I see Python being adopted in various places now that is maturing.
BTW: it hasn't been a "new and hip" language for quite some time, version 1.0 was released in 1991 and 2.0 was released in 2000. The pure novelty-seekers left a long time ago.
Thing is, Python is becoming rapidly the language of choice for scientists, statisticians, and other knowledge workers who only do a bit of development.
Oh definitely. I think though, for whatever reason, python has quite a bit more of it than most. I think that's probably partly because of how fast it has been adopted and rolled out.
Python is also really really popular these days. Maybe they haven't so much won but they've definitely become extremely significant, and they haven't lost.
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