I am not saying that it does not get used, and my commentary was not meant to be a cometary on the merits of pythons in particular. Personally I find it to be a fantastic language. But language popularity and trends is a very real phenomenon and that was what I was trying to highlight. To deny it's adoption is tapering off in new development houses, that are making language selection decisions, is to ignore the obvious. Just look at the volume of "we are building a new product in Ruby or Node or whatever the language dujor is", posts here on HN. I am by no means saying that Python is going to die. There are very few languages, that reach a decent level of popularity that actually "die" rather that it is following the natural cycle of popularity that all languages go through. My speculation was as to whether Python has reached the level of popularity, that it will sustain a sizable population once it has lost all popular mind-share. I don't know the answer to that speculation, just stating what I speculate could happen.