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depends on what you call winning. Java will continue be to be used for boring enterprise applications, which are basically glorified CRUDs with pretty HTML GUI.

Meanwhile, interesting stuff is being done on Python, Julia and R and Rust , if you also include system programming.

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Rust is an interesting language with a fantastic community, but it was created to (and mostly does) very "boring" things.

Java is still where the excitement is. Also a few people would use Python for serious production facing applications.

Python didn't even reach the fame Perl had in the 80s to mid 2000s.

Python is for beginner programmers, who absolutely don't want to learn anything new at all.

> Python is for beginner programmers, who absolutely don't want to learn anything new at all.

Python is used by the largest companies as well as the smallest one person company who need to get shit done. You can continue liking Java, without becoming bitter about Python.

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