Will Marketing of Python create Revolution?

Plenty of mixed views on "Marketing Python - An Idea Whose Time Has Come", well, more the people more are the opinions ! The best way to attract the developers towards Python is offer them a killer application like Ruby on Rails. Although Turbogears, Django, Zope are doing well but they are not rocking as Ruby on Rails or they are not marketed Aggressively / in the proper way.

Python needs to concentrate on :

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I heartily agree that Python needs stronger Advocacy. At ShowMeDo we're happy to help - we already have lots of how-to-use-Python videos (112 today, more to come).
We'd love to see some of these videos embedded in sites and we're always happy to help create new videos!
Ian and Kyran (founders).

Posted by Ian Ozsvald, on 06/15/2007 at 01:52

Jython - yes! Ruby doesn't have this (yet). Strong selling point.

PyPy - this is hot!! This may eclipse Jython and Iron Python. An even stronger selling point.

Forget the current web frameworks. If you want to look to the future, manage to get Python selected as *the* language for the new web O/S's. You might have to be willing to merge efforts with javascript. The switch to wen O/S from today's O/S will be like the switch from mainframes to PCs. Wake up.

Posted by John Mudd, on 03/16/2006 at 03:04

For me, Python's killer app is itself. It has such a huge range, from 5 line scripts, to full blown applications.

To attract developers to Python, we need to find out what they need and show them how Python delivers it. In my company people finally started to pay attention when they saw:

- how quickly I wrote an application in Python
- how quickly I could change the application to meet changing needs
- how easy it was to leverage Python's libraries to do anything from sending HTTP requests, to FTP to parsing and manipulating XML ... and dare I say it ... opening and reading a file
- how easy the code is to read

--- Rod

Posted by Rod Hyde, on 03/16/2006 at 01:31

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