2025-10-30 –, Auditorium
Why has Python become the most used programming language in the world?
Is it the syntax, with indentation as block markers? Is it the lists and the
dicts and the comprehensions? Is it some specific packages like Numpy or
Django?
It certainly isn't the execution speed, though that is improving a bit.
While some popularity comes from the factors above, my take is that trust
plays a major role in the rise of Python. I will explain what I mean in the
talk.
Why has Python become the most used programming language in the world?
Is it the syntax, with indentation as block markers? Is it the lists and the
dicts and the comprehensions? Is it some specific packages like Numpy or
Django?
It certainly isn't the execution speed, though that is improving a bit.
While some popularity comes from the factors above, my take is that trust
plays a major role in the rise of Python. I will explain what I mean in the
talk.
Jacob has been an active member of the Python community for over 25 years. He teaches Python and Machine Learning, runs a Python based accounting system as an SaaS and writes his own Python scripts for his restaurant Ternan on Vrångö in the Gothenburg southern archipelago.
He was involved in the PyPy project from the start and he has been active in the organization of Europython for many years, starting with being the head organizer in 2004 and 2005. He is a fellow of the PSF and the Europython society. Most of the year, he lives on Styrsö in the southern archipelago of Gothenburg.