At age 22, two weeks before the Python Challenge began, Moniz and his family took a trip to Florida. “We just went down there to look for snakes and pythons, just for fun," Moniz said.

That isn't enough to wrest the world-record captive python title from Medusa, which was 25-feet-2-inches long when her owners at an entertainment production company in Kansas City, Missouri, got ...

The programming language of the year title is decided by the jump in ratings year-on-year. Python overtook C# by a margin of 0.13% — almost a photo finish.