Python 3.11 will bear the fruits of CPython's multi-year effort to make Python a faster programming language.

It's been a leap-ahead year for Python—bringing on more speed, less cruft, and a large and growing user base.

Tiobe index of programming language popularity identified Python and C++ as the languages with the greatest increases in popularity in 2020.

In 2020 and 2021, Python was the programming language that appeared most frequently on Indeed, but the sharp growth of Java over the past year had pushed Python into second place.