Programming in Your Pyjamas? Python Gaining Visibility

Yesterday's post about Web development and MVC was triggered by an article on Advogato by a guy who turns out to be the technical force behind an intriguing new Web app framework called Pyjamas. After I'd written the article, I spent a couple of hours with Pyjamas and was somewhat impressed with the work that's been done on it. Not only is the framework quite interesting (it's essentially Google Web Toolkit ported from Java to Python) but there's even a passable introductory book and some decent documentation.

Today, ReadWriteWebhas a very brief piece on Pyjamas. That will get the new Python framework a good bit of notice since ReadWriteWeb is one of the most popular in the blogosphere. Probably not as much as Friday's Slashdot story and discussion did, however.

It seems to me that Python has been getting more and more visibility in the Web developer community over the past several months. I'm not even looking for a new framework, having settled at least for now on the PHP framework NOLOH. But the old language junkie dies hard and my attraction to Smalltalk and Python occasionally resurfaces.

A few years back, I was working with Kevin Altis on his Pythoncard project when he decided that for his idea to gain some traction, Python itself needed better promotion and set out to help with that effort. I see Pythoncard has recently seen a resurgence of activity and with all of the online mentions of Python that I keep stumbling across, maybe the efforts of Altis and others are starting to pay off.