I recently recently compared Java’s REPL scripting environment to Python’s.. Many detractors felt that such an apples-to-apples comparison was unfair. The general consensus from the Python community ...

Marking a first, Python has displaced Java to take the number two ranking in the November 2020 edition of the Tiobe Index of programming language popularity. C held on to the top spot.

For the first time in Tiobe's long-running index, 35-year-old Python has overtaken Java to become the second-most popular programming language. Python, a top choice for data-science and machine ...