The Python Developer Opinion Survey Reveals That Python 2 Is Still Popular For Some Tasks

MUMBAI, India - Oct. 25, 2023 - PRLog -- Based on replies from the end of 2022, the study, conducted in collaboration with JetBrains, indicated that 93% of Python developers have already adopted Python 3. The previous year, 95% had been reported, so this was a decrease.

The use cases specific to each version of Python provide a few hints as to why. Computer graphics (24% of respondents citing Python 2 against 11% for Python 3), game development (13%/8%), smartphone development (13%/5%), and multimedia app development (11%/5%) are all niche areas where Python 2 continues to dominate.

Data analysis (54%/29%), web development (46%/19%), and machine learning (38%/13%), on the other hand, clearly favoured Python 3. Within the report's umbrella category of "DevOps," "sysadmin," and "writing automation scripts," 23% of respondents preferred Python 2 while 36% favoured Python 3.

Python's dominance as a primary or secondary language among developers polled across use cases similarly reflected this trend. There wasn't much of a selection for DevOps, sysadmin, and automation; 35% choose Python as their primary and 34% as their secondary language. Data analysis (53% primary, 44% secondary), web development (45%/31%), and machine learning (37%/29%) showed the greatest degree of differentiation, however.

Among Python programmers, 86 percent also utilise other languages. Even if its popularity has decreased since 2021 (40% of respondents mentioned it), JavaScript is still the most frequently mentioned language by respondents (37% in 2022, 40% in 2021), and HTML/CSS is still in second place (36% in 2022, 38% in 2021). Notable programming languages mentioned by respondents included SQL (34%), Bash/Shell (31%), and C/C++ (29%).

Flask and Django tied for first place when it comes to web frameworks, with 39% each. One-quarter of Python programmers mentioned FastAPI, up 4 percentage points from the prior year.

More over half of those surveyed (51% overall) reported using Python for both professional and non-professional purposes. Although 21% of respondents claimed they used Python primarily at work, 28% stated they used so just for non-commercial purposes.

An intriguing coincidence is that the survey findings showing a modest increase for Python 2 were released in the same week as Python 3.12.0. Among the new additions are an improved API for debugging and profiling, support for the buffer protocol in Python programmes, and a more versatile parser for f-strings.

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