Python maintains its runaway top ranking in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, while older languages ...

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.

In winning the designation for 2020, Python jumped 2.01 percentage points last year in the Tiobe Index of language popularity, edging out C++, which increased 1.99 percentage points.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Python has surpassed Java as the top language used to introduce U.S. students to programming and computer science, according to a recent survey posted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).