Although Ruby on Rails is gaining momentum in Web development, it’s Python, an object-oriented programming language that enjoyed of being the winner of programming language throughout the year 2007. In fact, the Python programming language has been around since the beginning of 1990s, but only gained popularity among Web developers less than a decade. For me, it’s indeed a bit of surprise that TIOBE declares Python as the programming language of year 2007. To depict this, TIOBE has also prepared a graph that showed the dramatic growth of Python especially after the year 2004.

Meanwhile, a lot of Web developers are fascinated about the Django framework, a pretty clear “killer application” for the Python language and constantly driving people interest in this technology.

Source: available at http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index/Python.html, accessed January 11, 2008