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Lecture: Python is booming
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Does it seem like Python is booming
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Python is everywhere?
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Well that's probably because it mostly is.
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Here's a cover story at the Tech Republic.
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Python is eating the world.
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How one developer's side project became
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the hottest programming language on the planet.
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And I bet you can identify that guy in the background
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who created it after that previous video, huh?
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Clearly here's an article
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but let's look at some graphs and some real data.
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Maybe you've heard of Stack Overflow.
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If you're not a developer, maybe not
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but like I said, if you work with technical teams
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you've probably heard the term Stack Overflow.
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And this is a question and answer site
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that has somehow managed to become
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the definitive place that software developers
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go to ask questions and get answers and solutions
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to very specific technical problems.
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Millions and millions of questions, and page reviews
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and all sorts of stuff.
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So, very, very popular site.
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Certainly comes right to the top of Google
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if you search for a specific programming problem.
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So let's see what the data that they're making public
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says about Python compared to the other languages
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and ecosystems.
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They have this cool thing called Stack Overflow trends
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and you can go there and put in different technologies
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and get graphs that look just like this.
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And I put it in for the major programming languages
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C#, Python, Javascript, Java, PHP, C++, R
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Relevant in data science, Swift, or IOS and macOS
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C, and VisualBasic.NET.
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And here's a bunch of graphs.
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I think already you can tell one of these is
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unlike the others.
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Like, really, really unlike it.
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But let's make it more obvious.
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Yes, Python is absolutely growing.
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Where many of these languages are either flat or
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honestly, most of them are trending downwards
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giving up a lot of space to Python.
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There's a lot of reasons why this is happening.
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We're going to explore some of those
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but here's the numbers from Stack Overflow
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not just for some short little trend
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but this is over 10 years worth of data right here.
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This is amazing. They actually highlighted this is 2017
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in the fall of 2017 article called
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The Incredible Growth of Python.
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They cover a bunch of really aggressing things
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and here this data is in fact much more modern.
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This is just almost 2020.
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They have make a bunch of predictions
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and if you look at those predictions, it's surprising.
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They actually about predicted this growth with Python
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projected out a few years
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but they underestimated the decline of the other languages.
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It's amazing.
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So if it feels like you're seeing Python everywhere
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or you're hearing from many people that Python is amazing
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when maybe a couple years ago you hadn't heard about it
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well that's because the momentum behind Python
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is growing so fast, the number of libraries that
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people can use is growing, and growing, and growing
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and making it even a more compelling place to be
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than it was not long ago.
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Oh, remember that shift I talked about in 2012
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about data scientists?
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Yeah, also it's pretty obvious in the graph here
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that's not the only thing making this graph grow like this.
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There's a bunch of factors, but certainly
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it helped kick that curve up there in 2012.
