Python rival, R, a popular language for data scientists and academics, has gained two places and is now at 13th spot, which O'Grady reckons is about as high as it will ever get.

Python overtakes Java and C for the first time in 20 years of a key language popularity index. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Oct. 6, 2021, 5:25 a.m. PT ...

But despite being an early programming language, created in the 1970s by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, C's popularity has dipped in recent years. It dropped from eighth to ninth place on GitHub ...

The data suggests that newer programming languages like Ruby on Rails and Python are matched to a more overwhelmingly male job candidate base. Javascript and Java, two of the most popular ...