Python use growing fast

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.748.1294866543.6505.python-list at python.org>,
 Alice Bevan­McGregor <alice at gothcandy.com> wrote:

> On 2011-01-10 19:49:47 -0800, Roy Smith said:
> 
> > One of the surprising (to me, anyway) uses of JavaScript is as the 
> > scripting language for MongoDB (http://www.mongodb.org/).
> 
> I just wish they'd drop spidermonkey and go with V8 or another, faster 
> and more modern engine.  :(

Could be.  I've opened a few bugs against Mongo which were explained 
away as "it's really a bug in SM".