Check wikipedia: Android was bought by Google, not created. Also, a critical element of its success was adoption by partners: in this context, preferring Java (very much the "enterprise language") over Python (hackish open-source language with minuscule enterprise presence) was a no-brainer -- hence the "it's political" answer Guido himself got from the upper echelons.
As a python-aficionado, I stopped kidding myself a few years ago: Python will never be mainstream in the way Java or C# are, the number of people working with it will always be small, unless something dramatic happens at the commercial level. It's like Linux on the desktop: the masses are simply elsewhere.
Trust me, Python is doing very well at Enterprise scale. Here's a taster of what it's about in the below links, which are public information, but the Quartz platform is huge. I wish I was at liberty to discuss it in more depth. If you're keen on Python and willing to work hard, it's worth considering Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Take this with a grain of salt. I found working on Quartz to be much more miserable than any other platform I've ever worked with. Of course, that had to do with a lot of factors that weren't related to the language.
Im saddened by this. But on the other hand, our good friend Oracle is trying to change it by trying to motivate developers to search for a non-Java language.
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Check wikipedia: Android was bought by Google, not created. Also, a critical element of its success was adoption by partners: in this context, preferring Java (very much the "enterprise language") over Python (hackish open-source language with minuscule enterprise presence) was a no-brainer -- hence the "it's political" answer Guido himself got from the upper echelons.
As a python-aficionado, I stopped kidding myself a few years ago: Python will never be mainstream in the way Java or C# are, the number of people working with it will always be small, unless something dramatic happens at the commercial level. It's like Linux on the desktop: the masses are simply elsewhere.
Trust me, Python is doing very well at Enterprise scale. Here's a taster of what it's about in the below links, which are public information, but the Quartz platform is huge. I wish I was at liberty to discuss it in more depth. If you're keen on Python and willing to work hard, it's worth considering Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
https://us.pycon.org/2013/schedule/presentation/155/
http://careers.bankofamerica.com/JobDetails.aspx?SearchPage=...
Take this with a grain of salt. I found working on Quartz to be much more miserable than any other platform I've ever worked with. Of course, that had to do with a lot of factors that weren't related to the language.
Im saddened by this. But on the other hand, our good friend Oracle is trying to change it by trying to motivate developers to search for a non-Java language.