Named the Programming Language of the Year in 2021 by software company Tiobe in its annual Programming Language Hall of Fame rankings, Python also scored the top spot in 2020 and 2018.

Indeed, Python’s reputation precedes it, and this high-level, general-purpose programming language has become renowned, among other things, for its user-friendliness and a developer community of ...

Image: DANIEL CONSTANTE/Shutterstock The February TIOBE Index of the most popular programming languages is out, and while the work going on in the background of TIOBE’s calculations has changed ...

In 2024, Python climbed to 18% in the Tiobe index of programming languages, which rates how widely a language is used. The only other language to achieve that number was Java, back in 2016.

Guido van Rossum, a Dutch developer, released the first version of Python in 1991. Nowadays it is both one of the fastest-growing major programming languages and, according to the Tiobe Index, the ...