It's such a laughable take. First of all a language is never getting popular simply because it's good. Actually most used languages are usually terrible.[0]

Secondly it's non factual. Python's market share grew in 2025[1][2][3]. Probably driven by AI demand.

[0]: even truer for natural languages.

[1]: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#most-popular...

[2]: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#most-popular...

[3]: https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html

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mountainriver an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Yes most languages are terrible except the ones that are actually performant and good like Rust.

Do you really think AI agents of the future will be coding in Python??? What advantage would that possibly give them? That's the only laughable take here

	▲	raincole 6 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Define future. If it means the next five years, yes, I absolutely expect people and machines to keep writing Python.
	▲	windexh8er 8 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think there are many examples throughout history of better performing options not displacing counterparts. I think, really, the only "laughable" thing here is the ignorance on display that's riding atop the arrogance. Rust is great. But AI isn't displacing Python anytime soon. Moreso it sucks that Astral's been bought by a company with such a horrible leader at the helm.

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whattheheckheck 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah the swath of billions of new devs that have a lower barrier to try out coding will navigate them to python