It's the top or one of the top two languages in most notable language popularity indexes, and even looks set to beat Java these days. But 35-year-old Python does have its weaknesses.

Not since 2001, the year the TIOBE Index started, has a programming language held such a large percentage of community interest as Python does in 2025. Python is not the language with the highest ...

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.

"Outside of high-income countries Python is still the fastest growing major programming language," the post said. Stack Overflow said it didn't want to contribute to a "language war" and emphasized it ...

Early in the 1990s, Python continued to be developed, and on February 20, 1991, it had its first public release, version 0.9.0 — the first time the programming community saw Python.

In a contribution to the US PyCon Language Summit this week, van Rossum posted a document on Microsoft-owned GitHub, first spotted by The Register, detailing some of his ambitions to make Python a ...

Add to that its ease of use—Julia’s syntax is straightforward and intuitive, similar to that of Python, meaning it can be used extensively for exploratory programming and data analysis.

— Stephen Bolton (@skbolton) April 4, 2023 Java Java is a general-purpose programming language that is often used in the development of large-scale enterprise AI applications.