Python also ranked highly in Stack Overflow's 2017 developer survey, which found it was the fifth most popular language behind JavaScript, SQL, Java, and C#. It was also the top language ...

Multithreaded performance, on some benchmarks, scales almost linearly with each new thread in the best case—e.g., when using 20 threads, an 18.1× speedup on one benchmark and a 19.8× speedup ...