JavaScripthon focuses strictly on translating Python 3.5 and later code to JavaScript, without trying to provide full in-browser support as per projects like Brython.

GitHub report: Python overtakes JavaScript, while TypeScript beats Java A report from GitHub shows that developer activity in the field of AI and data science is increasing rapidly.

Whatever the reason, by November 2018 Python's share of questions asked each month on Stack Overflow rose to 11.3 percent, ahead of JavaScript's share of 10.2 percent.

A study conducted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) put Python at the top of the list of favorite languages among such contenders as Java, JavaScript, C++, and Go.

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages ...