Pythonista is what python developers call themselves. At least the ones active in the community. Rustacean is the equivalent for Rust.

I've always wondered... Do people really say these words out loud? I've never heard anyone describe themselves as a "Pythonista","Gopher", "Rustacian" etc IRL. But I also don't work a ton with those languages.

I've heard all 3 spoken.

> Pythonista is what python developers call themselves.

Just curious, where have you seen this exactly?

I think I heard it once in real life, over the last decade, used by a non-technical manager. I’ve only read it a few times, online, also mostly by non-python users. I’ve never called myself a pythonista, and I’ve never known anyone who has. But, I also have never been in a group with individuals that know, or identifies as, a single language.

I've heard it at pycon and at the local python user's group. I've seen it on blogs for years.

I heard it more often circa 2010 when I was active in my local python user group. Usage has definitely waned along with some more of the cute aspects of pythonic culture, like referring to pypi as the cheese shop. I think it's because more and more companies started hiring specifically for python, and it became something developers were forced to use, as opposed to something that people chose to use because they loved it.

I'm a big Python advocate. I'd never call myself a "Pythonista" if asked to describe myself, but I do see "Pythonista" as something that describes me.

In this sense, as someone who is casually interested in learning Rust, the title "From Pythonista to Rustacean" told me this repo is very relevant for me! :)

I would assume Pythonista is the feminine version and Pythonist is the masculine version. Although, in practice, I would just say "Python user".

There isn't a productive -ista suffix in English; it occurs in loanwords, or words created to ironically mimic a foreign language in the Romance family ("fashionista").

The -ista suffix in some European languages which have it is not universally feminine.

  English                    Slovak                       Italian
                        (m)         (f)              (m)          (f)

  fascist             fašista     fašistka         fascista     fasciste
  racist              rasista     rasistka         razzista     razziste

See here: https://www.etymonline.com/word/-ist

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ista

The -ista suffix from Latin, where it is a masculine, appearing in that form in a number of Romance languages, and in French as -iste, is masculine. The English -ist comes from the Latin -ista.

I can add dentista and artista . Both in Spanish and Polish they are masculine. I remember it as a rule from a beginner Polish class.

guitarrista, bajista, ... :)

You assume wrongly, Pythonista has been in use for both genders for a long time (more than a decade).

like Sandinista or Fashionista

The iOS app came after the Python community had adopted the term.

I've used it in the past, but it hasn't seen updates for over 2 years now. Does the app still work with iOS 16?