Google has announced an experimental AI-powered code agent called “Jules” that uses Gemini 2.0 to automatically fix Python and Javascript coding errors.

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.

Although Python excels in one-off, general-purpose tasks, its biggest drawback is speed. It doesn’t match Java in supporting real-time tasks or financial transactions where milliseconds matter.