Python has become the most popular programming language on GitHub, while the use of Jupyter Notebooks has also soared, according to GitHub’s Octoverse 2024 report.

On the web front end, web development is one size fits all: JavaScript. The Transcrypt Python to JavaScript compiler aims to execute Python 3.6 at JavaScript speed, with comparable file sizes.

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.

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages ...

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 ...

Written in Rust, the PyApp utility wraps up Python programs into self-contained click-to-run executables. It might be the ...

That’s how to run a Python script in terminal or CMD. It’s a very straightforward process, but it’s extremely handy if you ever want to quickly carry out a bespoke task.

The survey found that Python is more popular than Java overall. A total of 52% reported using Python this year, compared to 49% who said they used Java. Last year it was 55% to Java and 54% to Python.

Kite and its AI-powered developer environment now offer a Pro plan for $19.90 per month. There's also a new Python engine and JavaScript support.