> There are two significant factions in the Python community: the scientific group and the web-dev group.
You forget the animation group. And the hardware/embedded group (Raspberry-Pi, anyone?). And the C-wrapper-writing group. And the sysadmin group. And and and...
The Python ecosystem is very large and diverse. That's part of its strength, and part of its weakness as well (it's very difficult to "herd" all these people, as this 3k migration has shown), but don't make the error of reducing it to the most vocal sectors -- they're not necessarily the most significant ones.
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> There are two significant factions in the Python community: the scientific group and the web-dev group.
You forget the animation group. And the hardware/embedded group (Raspberry-Pi, anyone?). And the C-wrapper-writing group. And the sysadmin group. And and and...
The Python ecosystem is very large and diverse. That's part of its strength, and part of its weakness as well (it's very difficult to "herd" all these people, as this 3k migration has shown), but don't make the error of reducing it to the most vocal sectors -- they're not necessarily the most significant ones.