Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python's past and explores what's next.

However, as the language developed, some design choices in Python 2 made it more difficult to maintain and advance the language. In response, Python 3 was created and launched on Dec. 3, 2008.

The language was created around 1990 by Guido van Rossum, a fan of Monty Python. Since then it has matured at a phenomenal rate, thanks to its open source nature.

Python is an interpreted programming language (also called a scripting language), created in 1990 by Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum, following his experience working on the education-focused ...

Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster ...

Python was designed to be opinionated about how software should be created, so there’s often just a single appropriate way to write a piece of code, leaving developers with fewer design ...

Van Rossum created Python as an interpreter for the new, simple-to-read scripting language, which would appeal to Unix/C hackers.

In this sense, Guido van Rossum created Python in the late 1980s to improve ABC. The latter was too perfect for a programming language — while its rigidity made it easy to teach, it was hard to ...

Someone on the development team for Python in Visual Studio Code is a Monty Python fan. Microsoft announced a new Python language server for the wildly popular open source, cross-platform VS Code ...

MicroPython, on the other hand, is a lean and efficient use of the Python 3 (aka Python) programming language that's optimized to run on microcontrollers and embedded systems. It’s been used to ...