[littlestymaar]

> I’m not sure how to prove anything, but I’ll note that Python 3.0 was released in 2008. If Python 2 wasn’t already extremely popular and well-established at that point, I doubt we’d have seen the brutal 10+ish year migration from it.

This is about the “scripting niche” I was talking about: in 2008 every Linux distro included Python and lots of build scripts were written in Python 2, but Python for the back-end was really rare back then.

[scrollaway]

Yeah python for the backend started taking off with Django, which only released 1.0 and picked up steam in 2008.

[qup]

Django was already very good well before 1.0, and had at a minimum some of the best documentation out there. I seem to recall a decent community, video tutorials, etc.