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by tedyoung 3539 days ago
I had a similar desire to learn another language (after 20 years of Java and JavaScript), and Python was definitely on the list. What helped me decide was to look at the projects and tools that I used or wanted to use (and potentially contribute to) and then see what language they're written in. In my case, I'd been doing a lot of Docker and Kubernetes work, so Go was a natural choice.

If I'd been more interested in "Big Data", then Python (or, if I wanted to stay in the JVM world, Scala) would have been my choice.

Either way, Python and Go will be around for many years to come.