Python - language of the decade

The post uses the PYPL popularity index to argue that Python had the largest increase over the last decade. It also says the growth looks linear over ten years and treats that pattern as the main reason to call Python the language of the decade.

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• The author cites PYPL as a way to read programming language popularity and says it avoids some ambiguity attributed to TIOBE by using other Google Trends phrases.
• Python is presented as the language with the biggest increase in the last decade.
• The growth is described as steady and linear across ten years.
• A constant line is interpreted as a sign that a language still has a stable group of people learning it, which is said to fit Java and PHP.
• Python is described as moving from scripting and scientific use into areas dominated by web and business technologies.
• The post says Python has gained popularity despite competition from big-company-backed languages and noisy web languages.
• The author concludes that this success is why Python is the language of the decade.