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Eschewing newer technologies in general is clearly a terrible idea but it's not such a bad idea to eschew hyped technologies (particularly corporate driven hype

• ironmagma 7y ago
  That is true, but the trick is how to separate the hype from the gold, which is almost as much superstition as science. I would disagree that Python didn't have a hype phase; there were comics like this[1] after all. [1] https://xkcd.com/353/ https://xkcd.com/353/
  • antod 7y ago
    Although I would say 2007 was close to the peak of Python bleeding "mindshare" due to the hype cycle of Ruby and Rails.
  • ncmncm 7y ago
    Very little money was ever spent hyping Python. Python benefited enormously by contrast to Perl, despite being slower.
    • ryanbrunner 7y ago
      That's a function of when Python was popularized, where there was very little major corporate support for new open source libraries / frameworks. Ruby and Rails had their hype cycle around the same time, more or less on the back of a <50 employee company. Nowadays, open source development has centralized far more on large public companies, so there's a lot more marketing effort being put on all the languages / frameworks / libraries out there.
  • crdoconnor 7y ago
    If you look at the Google trends for ruby on rails (where the hype is clear) it looks markedly different to python (steady trend). I remember that comic - I think it coincided not with anything special happening in the python world, it was just when Randall Munroe learned python.