The Python programming language makes a surprisingly strong showing in a new skills survey of more than 11,500 developers and IT pros conducted by Packt Publishing Ltd. "If there's one language that's ...

The survey found that Python is more popular than Java overall. A total of 52% reported using Python this year, compared to 49% who said they used Java. Last year it was 55% to Java and 54% to Python.

Ironically, the Evans Data survey results were revealed on the same day — Nov. 10 — that Google announced a new programming language, known as Go, which could compete with Python as the ...