JavaScript (5.8 million users) As Java powered the back end, JavaScript (which, despite the name, really has nothing to do with Java) powers the front end of applications.

But Python is not the only option for programming machine learning applications. There’s a growing community of developers who are using JavaScript to run machine learning models.

Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most popular language on GitHub, while the use of Jupyter Notebooks also has skyrocketed on the site. The rise of both underscore the surge in data science ...

JavaScript remains the language with the most total number of question tags on Stack Overflow, which currently number 1.76 million since Stack Overflow's 2008 launch. Java, C#, PHP, and Python ...

Python also ranked highly in Stack Overflow's 2017 developer survey, which found it was the fifth most popular language behind JavaScript, SQL, Java, and C#. It was also the top language ...