The new language was presented by its creator, Russell O’Connor, Infrastructure Tech Developer at Blockstream, at the ACM SIGSAC Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2017) ...

Choosing the correct programming language is a critical decision that can significantly impact the success of any software project, especially in a rapidly evol ...

Other changes in this month’s index includes a rise in Visual Basic .NET, JavaScript, Assembly language and Swift. Other languages like C++, C# and PHP are moving down the charts.

The long-standing hegemony of Java and C is over," wrote Paul Jansen chief of Tiobe Software. "Python, which started as a simple scripting language, as an alternative to Perl, has become mature.

Developers can use traditional programming languages (C++, Python, JavaScript) for blockchain development as well as specifically built solutions like Solidity, Vyper and Scrypto.

Developer Stack Overflow visits to Python have grown very quickly, she added: This year, it became the most visited programming language in the world on the site.