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Discussion on: Do You Use Python For Anything Besides Data Science?

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Erik

Really? About how long ago was the last time you worked on something in Python? this year?

Interesting about the job postings, I feel like I haven't seen anything posted for Django in at least a year

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Vincent Dedo

I was working for a research institute this year, and while their focus was heavily on data science, there was also a push to move away from more archaic languages (satellite image processing pipelines in perl? no thanks). Last year I worked for a company that was leveraging a lot of the Django features to do the heavy lifting in their backend, but was also increasing the amount of code in golang they had.

I suppose it can depend on location and on the market. In the pandemic era and south west of the UK, there's a lot of PHP going now and a lot less Python. I'm planning on branching out with some frontend stuff and devops skills to be able to go for those fullstack positions now.