Could Python supplant Java?

[Max M]

netvegetable wrote:


> But could Python do the trick? The python interpreter is smaller than the 
> JRE, and it's certainly a nicely structured language, with nearly all the 
> coding features of Java. 


Whether Python will ever replace Java probably has nothing to do with 
Pythons technical merrits.

Right now many/most business' use Java as the main language due to the 
fact that it is well known, trusted and can get the job done. So it is 
sort of a safe bet. And it has a lot of momentum.

Python on the other hand is seen more as a fringe language that "no-one" 
knows.

It is very hard to change that image in the mind of the busines people 
taking the decissions based on non-technical merrits.



regards Max M