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by rco8786 3701 days ago
Err, no. Python probably isn't even in the top 5 of languages startups choose for their main stack.
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bnchrch 3701 days ago
Not the most sound method but I was demonstrating the relative popularity of programming languages to my SO the other day using find in the Who's Hiring thread for May and python was the most popular.

Surprised me as well.

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superuser2 3701 days ago
A ton more companies have some Python scripts than Python as a primary development language; this skews naive keyword matching assessments of job postings.
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gaius 3700 days ago
What is then?

One thing that's always bemused me is that YC doesn't insist on its companies using Lisp :-)

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