Snapshot of tags on various programming languages on StackOverflow. While R has been plateauing over the last few years, and many other languages are on a steady decline, Python’s growth seems ...

Guido van Rossum, the creator of the hugely popular Python programming language, has given his thoughts on the language for the browser, mobile devices, and upcoming rivals like Julia.

"Python is widely acknowledged as slow. Whilst Python will never attain the performance of low-level languages like C, Fortran, or even Java, we would like it to be competitive with fast ...