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.

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

The TIOBE Programming Community Index shows trends in programming languages based on search engine volume. Trends year-over-year from the TIOBE Programming Community Index. Image: TIOBE Software ...