Tiobe's top-10 languages this April in descending order are Java, C, C++, Python, Visual Basic .NET, C#, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, and Assembly Language. C++ is back in third place, having swapped ...

This download will only be available for a limited time and is only compatible with Visual Studio 15.4 Preview 1. Yet another extension -- carrying the same warning -- allows for native Python ...

Among the improvements to Python functionality in the open source, cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor is a new start page. That functionality comes with the Python extension in the VS Code ...

The updated Python extension is available for download from Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) marketplace, where it's currently the most popular programming language by a long mile.

In winning the designation for 2020, Python jumped 2.01 percentage points last year in the Tiobe Index of language popularity, edging out C++, which increased 1.99 percentage points.

Microsoft plans to extend IntelliSense code analysis for Python to tools beyond Visual Studio, using its Python Language Server. IntelliSense provides autocompletions for variables, functions, and ...

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.