Python is actually six years older than 23-year-old JavaScript but JavaScript has had a significantly higher share of tagged questions per month each year since 2008.

There's been an upset in the Octoverse, as Python has unseated JavaScript as the most-used programming language on GitHub.… Python's ascendancy from the number-two slot, which it's held since ...

But 35-year-old Python does have its weaknesses. Not necessarily for the data-science and machine-learning communities built around Python extensions like NumPy and SciPy, but as a general ...

Although Python excels in one-off, general-purpose tasks, its biggest drawback is speed. It doesn’t match Java in supporting real-time tasks or financial transactions where milliseconds matter.

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages ...

Explore the top programming languages for 2025, including Python, JavaScript, Rust, Go, and Swift. Learn which one fits your ...