According to SlashData, there are now 8.2 million developers in the world who code using Python and that population is now larger than those who build in Java ... A whopping 69 percent of machine ...

It ranks in third place behind mainstays Java and C, according to programming language index Tiobe. But this month Python has clocked up a rating of 8.5 percent ... like Netflix use Python ...

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 ...

Now Python has surged past Java, which slipped to third. While some might cite Python’s use in fields such as data mining, AI, and numerical computing as reasons for its rising fortunes ...

"Python, which started as a simple scripting language, as an alternative to Perl, has become mature. Its ease of learning, its huge amount of libraries, and its widespread use ... Java fell 2.11 ...