Software quality firm Tiobe has also noted a recent surge in interest in C++. While interest in C++ did see a noteworthy rise, Python and Java still dominate O'Reilly's platform usage.

According to Kleinerman, Python with the proper security and governance will be a differentiator for Snowflake's platform. Rich libraries should also speed up the machine learning pipelines, he added.

General application programming You can create both command-line and cross-platform GUI applications with Python and deploy them as self-contained executables.

Snowflake is also releasing Snowpark-optimized data platforms, initially on the Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud, so Python developers can run large-scale machine learning training models and other ...