Is Python Dead?

[Edward B. Wilson II]

I have been following Python for five years now, and I am still just as
frustrated with it as I was in 1996.

Python still doesn't have good database support, nor has it grown to be
useful in the web space as mod_perl.  PyApache has been around longer than
mod_php, yet php has far surpassed it as a productivity tool in the web
space.

It would seem Python can do everything, yet nothing.  Everyone wants to
write the next killer application with Python, XML parsers, image
manipulators, super computer steering modules, yet no one wants to work on
making Python perform where it matters most.  Python is the best language at
eclectic stuff, however, poor at bread and butter tasks.

Python needs better leadership in areas of its growth.  Python is truly the
best language in use today, except it still isn't very useful for the
largest solution sector, database access, and information presentation (web,
or otherwise).

It seems that Python should strive to be great at the ABC's before it
attempts poetry.

--Ed