Python’s Meteoric Rise: From 2016-2018, KDNuggets and Kaggle report that Python overtook R as the most used programming language for data science-related purposes: today, more than 65% of all ...

It took the programming community a couple of decades to appreciate Python. But since the early 2010’s, it has been booming — and eventually surpassing C, C#, Java and JavaScript in popularity.

He said part of the problem is weak tools. “The existing programming languages have not gone too far from machine code; they just use better words for the same instructions,” Dmitriev said.

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense" following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.

Programming language Nim 1.0 promises developers a stable base for code that future versions won't break. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Sept. 24, 2019, 6:02 a.m. PT ...

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.