Harnham said that Python was now the top programming language used in data science, "with R falling firmly into second place." The remaining top-five data science technologies were SQL, AWS and Spark.

While Python is IEEE's lead programming language, the spotlight is on SQL, which leads the organization's jobs rankings.

Usage of content about Go is up 23% since last year, and Rust is up 31%. O'Reilly only added its first Rust content last year. Rust reached version 1.0 in 2015. "Both Rust and Go are here to stay ...

Ada has climbed into the top ten of the TIOBE Programming Community index, according to the July leaderboard. Ada is one of several older languages that consistently jockey for spots in the lower ...

There's been an upset in the Octoverse, as Python has unseated JavaScript as the most-used programming language on GitHub.… Python's ascendancy from the number-two slot, which it's held since ...