I am new to programming and after a month or so of googling, I have decided to learn Python. Is this a good time to learn the language or people will soon jump ship since JAVA is now open source? By open source software, I understand that the code developed freely and more people have access. Am I right?
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...Utter bull! Python is also compiled to bytecode and then run onto virtual machine. Please educate yourself a little before you say ignorant things.
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