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I’ve had a few frontend engineering candidates quiz me as to why our backend is written in Python and not JavaScript, and implying that Python is “legacy”. This is not true, but there are developers who think that.

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I'm not a fan of Python but the language is still in the top 5 with C#, Java, PHP and Ruby. It's very easy to get a job as a Python dev. People saying that Python is “legacy” have obviously no idea what they're talking about. They probably think C#, Java, PHP and Ruby are “legacy” too. :)

Would be interested to know how many backend engineers would say something so silly.

They're juniors who also think SQL is obsolete because you can't POST a json into it. They'll understand that in order to solve problems efficiently you need a toolbox of a reasonable size.

Yep I’ve had this recently too. Three devs joined the team who had no experience in relational databases, didn’t even know what SQL was for.

A few weeks later they told this story of using MongoDB and how they had layered some rules on top to ensure data consistency...

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