So you’re a Java coder. You were hot stuff in the early 2000s. Guess what? You’re old school now. Oh, so you’re a C# coder. You were hot stuff in the mid-to-late 2000s. You too – you’re old school now. Ok, what’s new school then, you ask. JavaScript? TypeScript? No – these are the same as Java and C#, except with truthiness, falsiness and nullishness thrown in, just to mess with our minds a bit.
I present to you Python, the new kid on the block.
Schoolkids now learn Python as part of their curriculum. Data scientists worldwide use Python as their go-to, because of Jupyter, NumPy, and especially pandas—libraries that they can’t live without. Python is super easy to install, and it’s available on Windows, macOS and Linux. Thanks to Visual Studio Code, Python also gets a nice IDE. As machine learning is becoming more important, so does Python.
What does this mean? There’ll still be plenty of jobs for Java/C# full stack developers – Java and C# still have the best server-side frameworks. But as the new cohort enters the job market, with a strong preference for Python (and perhaps with an equally strong disdain for JavaScript), I don’t see why Python frameworks such as FastAPI wouldn’t gain in popularity, edging out Node.js frameworks such as Express and NestJS.