> 50% of Python developers have less than 2 years of professional experience
That seems insane. Do juniors start with Python but then don't write it again once they grow up? or is it just who fills out responses to a survey like this.
AnimalMuppet · 2h ago
Or is Python just growing that rapidly? (There was a time when computer programming as a whole was growing that fast. Is Python there now?)
Or is Python picking up lots of people whose job isn't actually programming? They want to do data science, or biology, or whatever, and they need to do something with some data, and it's too complicated for an Excel spreadsheet, so they reach for Python. But when they get the data mangling part done (or at least working so that they don't have to keep fiddling with it), they quit being a programmer of any kind, and go back to doing whatever it is that they actually do. If people like that were, say, half of the Python programmers, and they only did that for a couple of years each, you'd see exactly this result.
That seems insane. Do juniors start with Python but then don't write it again once they grow up? or is it just who fills out responses to a survey like this.
Or is Python picking up lots of people whose job isn't actually programming? They want to do data science, or biology, or whatever, and they need to do something with some data, and it's too complicated for an Excel spreadsheet, so they reach for Python. But when they get the data mangling part done (or at least working so that they don't have to keep fiddling with it), they quit being a programmer of any kind, and go back to doing whatever it is that they actually do. If people like that were, say, half of the Python programmers, and they only did that for a couple of years each, you'd see exactly this result.