Re: [GENERAL] Python versus Other Languages using PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Devoy
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Python versus Other Languages using PostgreSQL  (D'Arcy Cain <darcy@druid.net>)
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> ....My question still remains though - why is it that all the largest web platforms that have used PostgreSQL
*specifically*choose Python as their back-end language? 
If you write the developers a nice tweet or e-mail they might tell
you.  Anything else is going to be speculation because there are a
plethora of domain, human and environmental factors which could lead
to language and architecture choices, not least of which is skills
available in the labour market.

Peter

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On 9 May 2017 at 14:45, D'Arcy Cain <darcy@druid.net> wrote:
> On 2017-05-09 05:26 AM, Francisco Olarte wrote:
>>
>> Do you have any data supporting that? AFAIK people tend to choose the
>> language first, database second, not the other way round, and many
>> times the platform language is nailed, but the db can be changed.
>> Also, WHICH platforms are you referring to?
>
>
> Perhaps it has something to do with the license.  Both Python and PostgreSQL
> have a BSD type licence.  I wonder if the platform of choice tends to be one
> of the BSDs as well.
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