Well, the EuroPython 2008 is almost over…
I think that last year’s EuroPython 2007 was better, but this time there were some very interesting talks too (my opinion may be a bit biased, because I’m not primarily a Python programmer):
- “Why I Want You to Use Eggs” by Ignas Mikalajūnas was interesting, I was only wandering why the Python community (which I consider smart) does not have a fully working repository of eggs and why is it still in so immature state. For example Java community has Maven which stands much further in a sense of adoption and maturity.
- “Developing a Very Large Python Web Application LEAN style” by Steve Alexander revealed interesting points on LEAN principles and their usage and adoption at Canonical (Launchpad, Bazaar and Ubuntu).
- Mind blowing keynote by professor Hans Rosling
- “Core Python Containers — Under the Hood” by Raymond D. Hettinger. Great talk on the insides of Python containers and how to properly use lists and dictionaries to get the maximum performance.
Tim Peters: “Code written with Python dictionaries is a gazillion times faster than C”.
Raymond: “If you need a mapping but try something else, it will be dog slow no matter what language you use.”
The moral – use and love dictionaries :)
- “Why It’s Good To Be Lazy: Functional Programming with Python” by Adam Byrtek. General introduction to functional programming and the possibilities of functional programming with Python.
Ok, so that’s the stuff I remember, there were more good talks I guess…
And of course there were some nice T-shirts and CD’s (CD’s are a bit out of scale):
Another thing – Sun was among conference sponsors. I think Sun has some serious plans about Python: they hired Ted Leung and Frank Wierzbicki (JPython, they did talks at the conference too), opened Python Developer Center + there are some other clues (Python support in NetBeans, etc.).
Interesting trends taken from ITJobWatch:
Java programming demand:
And Python programming demand:
Demands are quite different yet, but lets wait and see :)
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Not to be a jerk, but those job demand charts are intellectually insulting. The demand for Java in the UK has dropped from a high of about 36% to 25%. Not that this is rosy news for Java developers, but compare this to the Python chart — it rose from 0.5% to 2%. What a joke. In other words, there is virtually NO demand for Python, while 1 in 4 programming jobs are Java jobs.
I *like* python, but these charts don’t help the cause. Java is absolutely DOMINANT. Jython will do more for Python adoption than anything else I can think of.
Nice to hear that you liked my talk!
I’m completely new to PYTHON. I’m a fresher in the software industry. I was trained in JAVA. But I was fascinated by PYTHON. It was a difficult decision to switch fro JAVA to PYTHON as JAVA has a huge demand. But I hope my stint with PYTHON turns out to be good.