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.

For Python versus other languages, the place where it really gets interesting is that the unit time per solution is lower than it is with languages like Java, C++ or C. Yeah, it’s interpreted (ish).

Nuitka converts Python to C++, which can then be executed or packaged up as a stand-alone file for redistribution The more popular the language, the more varied its implementations. Python is a ...