#100DaysOfCode in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Welcome to the course
Lecture: Why Python for #100DaysOfCode
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You've chosen Python for your #100DaysOfCode. Maybe you're a Python developer who has lots of experience. You just want to go through this
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whole challenge, and that's great. You probably already know the power and popularity of Python. But if you're just getting into programming,
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and you're coming here and saying, "Well, let's try Python for this 100 days. That seems like a great way." I want to tell you, you have chosen wisely.
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So check out this graphic. This comes from one of the best sources on the internet for popularity in adoption of technology, Stack Overflow.
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And the data scientists at Stack Overflow did some predictions and said, "Well, how are the various languages doing over time?
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Are they becoming more popular, less popular?" Based on their view into the industry. And they did this up to mid-2017, and then you can see
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the gray part where they're projecting out. One of these languages is unlike the others. It is just going up, and up, and increasingly up.
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Your other best bet is JavaScript, which is barely logarithmically going up. Java looks like it's topping off. The rest of them are going down.
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So if you're going to focus on something, pick one particular language. Pick the one that's got all the momentum
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and the popularity behind it, and that's Python. Now, you might say, "Okay, Michael, this actually is against all these
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older languages, C#, Java, and so on. What about the new languages like Go and Rust? They're probably even more amazing
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and more powerful, and growing quicker." Well, let's see. Yeah, they're growing up, they're going upward, not downward, that's really great.
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Swift is going up, TypeScript's going up, Go is going up, but they are nowhere near Python in this graph.
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I just want to leave you with these two pictures in your mind that Python is really a great place to put your energy and be learning.
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My rough rule of thumb here is I would like to bet my career on things that are going up, not down. So which one of these do you want to pick?
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Well, you're in a good place.