3 years ago

For those of you out there who love both numbers and the Python programming language — and given Python’s propensity for data crunching and the like, that Venn diagram is rather close to a circle inside another circle — it’s an exciting week as the results of the 2020 Python Developers Survey have just been released. Conducted last October by JetBrains and the Python Software Foundation, the survey gathered the heartfelt opinions and habits of more than 28,000 Python developers from almost 200 countries and regions, and now you can find out just how far out of the norm your particular Python programming habits fall. Some stats you might not be at all surprised about include Python developers’ tendency to use the language in conjunction with JavaScript (75% of web developers use the two, according to the results), and data analysis, web development, and machine learning comprising the top three of the language’s common use cases. According to a synopsis of the results in InfoWorld, another obvious take away from the survey is that of where its users would like to see the language go next: “The most-wanted features by Python developers are static typing and strict type hinting, closely followed by performance improvements,” they write, noting that the results show a near tie among the leading choices.

Of course, nothing is 100% and not all are in agreement as to what should come next for their favorite language.