Pyston 2.2 yields a roughly 30% speed improvement over standard CPython, and the software is now available under an open source license. Pyston, an alternate version of the Python runtime ...

Python is actually six years older than 23-year-old JavaScript but JavaScript has had a significantly higher share of tagged questions per month each year since 2008.

Python has become the most popular programming language on GitHub, while the use of Jupyter Notebooks has also soared, according to GitHub’s Octoverse 2024 report.

Python also ranked highly in Stack Overflow's 2017 developer survey, which found it was the fifth most popular language behind JavaScript, SQL, Java, and C#. It was also the top language ...