capitalize on market niche - AppsWithPythonScripting revisited

"Kevin Altis" <[email protected]> Sat, 3 Apr 2004 20:10:27 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.marketing.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/AppsWithPythonScripting

As I've been expanding this wiki page I am thrilled by the large number 
of products and companies using Python as a "glue" or scripting 
language. Python seems to be particularly strong in the area of 3D 
visualization and animation tools including game engines.

This may be a market area where Python really does standout because 
there isn't much in the way of competition except proprietary scripting 
systems tied to a single game engine (e.g. UnrealScript). Perl and PHP 
certainly don't seem to apply at all for this kind of work and so far I 
haven't found a single example of Ruby being used. There is the Lua 
programming language, but I don't have specific examples of which apps 
and toolkits use it.

Anyway, it is looking like we have a focused market segment or two to 
capitalize on.

I also see the need for more white papers and how to articles on the 
topic of scripting and extending your application and toolkit with 
Python so we can get many more companies involved.

ka