Popular Applications Written in Python

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In this article, we will tell you why Python is so popular and what programs and applications were created with it.

A bit of history and interesting facts!

This is not a new language, people started thinking about it back in the 80s, and started creating it in 1989. The author was Guido van Rossum , a Dutch programmer who was also nicknamed the "magnanimous dictator for life" - for a long time he observed the development of the language and reserved the right to make final decisions when necessary. And the language is named after the popular comedy TV show "Monty Python's Flying Circus".

Today, it is one of the most popular programming languages ​​​​on the market. It became the "Language of the Year" according to TIOBE in 2007, 2010, 2018 and 2020, and in July 2021 it took the third place in popularity.

So rest assured, Python has gathered a huge community around itself and anyone can join it.

What are its advantages ?

You can easily find a solution in case of a problem, most likely someone has already discussed it on the forums. The code is quite easy to read, there are special libraries for any purpose (NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn and others) and a wide range of practical applications:
It can guarantee increased security and scalability. And in general, it is perfect for implementing narrowly focused solutions.

A pleasant advantage will be a fairly high salary already for a junior position - in Belarus from $ 600.

As for projects created in Python, many of them are very popular among users. For example, the recent large-scale failure of one of these applications was actively discussed ... by everyone? And yes, we are talking about Instagram . The company was founded in 2010, and today more than 1 billion active users per month share their photos and videos.

Of course, it is worth noting that the project uses many languages. But before the application was purchased by Facebook, it was a website built using Django (a free framework for web applications in the Python language). And despite the popularity of mobile applications, the site still works. The streaming service Netflix

also has hundreds of millions of subscribers . Their site is also written in Python and has a strong mechanism for analytics and building recommendations. If the season of your favorite series is over, you social media marketing service will very quickly find something else to watch. And the company will determine which projects are worth paying more attention to.
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company representatives often take a negative view when their brand becomes a household name, as happened with Google back in the 2000s, and with Xerox (in English they managed to overcome this, the .
Let's get back to our topic, and yes, the company also loves and develops its projects in Python. For example, YouTube (where, by the way, we have a channel where we share various IT content, invite experts for interviews and much more).

By the way, the creator of the language, Guido van Rossum, worked at Google for almost 10 years. But in 2012 he accepted an offer to move to Dropbox and, as you can guess, this cloud file storage system also uses Python in the desktop client. Thanks to the use of various libraries, the company was able to scale the product to any user device.

The next example may not be so popular among ordinary users, but will be interesting to computer game lovers - we are talking about AlphaStar , artificial intelligence in the game StarCraft II. The program was announced in 2016 and was able to reach the level of the best players.

Continuing with the topic of games, one of the best-selling will be Sims 4 , a life simulator where most problems are solved with the help of Motherlode or by removing the ladder from the pool.



Python is also used in World of Tanks, Civilization IV, EVE Online , and many other games.

The fast speed of language development was also appreciated by the creators of the social knowledge sharing service and question and answer website Quora . The main reason was the desire to quickly release an MVP (minimum viable product) to the world, and Python is perfect for this purpose.

The ability to perform multiple computational processes is another advantage of the language, which was decisive for the founders of the international company Uber . With the help of their application, we learned how to call a taxi in a couple of clicks, pay for it in a convenient way, and have food delivered to your home.

In addition to taxi rides, the language is also used in companies with more global routes, even space ones. We are talking about NASA and their scientific research, where Python is used (clarification: we are talking about research, not about flights to the ISS).