LSW 50 Report post Posted November 13, 2018 Python is becoming the world’s most popular coding language https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language Quote In the past 12 months Americans have searched for Python on Google more often than for Kim Kardashian, a reality-TV star. 😶... 😐... ☺️... Interesting comparison for sure. This link comes from Nathan House of StationX who brought it up in his blog who goes on to explain the use of Python in the hacking community: The World’s Most Popular Coding Language? Reasons to Get to Grips with Python… https://www.stationx.net/the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language-reasons-to-get-to-grips-with-python/ Quote It’s versatile, it works on a minimum of code - and it’s also relatively easy to put to work: three factors which go a long way in explaining why Python is currently being touted as the “world’s most popular coding language”. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CammyToedebusch 0 Report post Posted August 29, 2019 That's great but I am still confused between deciding between Python and R especially when it is about machine learning. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
martinsmith 2 Report post Posted May 4 Yes pythons popularity is its strong support in the area of artificial intelligence (AI), according to the IEEE. Python also offers a healthy number of libraries and packages that programmers can use so they're not building certain code from scratch Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
