The next 20 years of Python

Python seems to be gaining momentum not so much in the core language as the libraries and application areas - some very large web apps such as Instagram and Disqus (25,000 requests/sec) are built in Python.

Python is also gaining a lot of use in scientific computing where the ability to rapidly explore solutions is a big win and there are various compilers and JITs (Numba, Cython, PyPy). You can even run Python on CUDA based GPUs if your problem fits.

There is still the issue of migrating all major libraries to Python 3, but there's now a lot more experience and tooling for this.

Links:

- Disqus: world's largest Django app at 400m users - http://ontwik.com/python/pycon-2011-disqus-serving-400-mi...
- PyCUDA: http://mathema.tician.de/software/pycuda