Python has surpassed Java as the top language used to introduce U.S. students to programming and computer science, according to a recent survey posted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Its top 10 were JavaScript, Python, Java, PHP, C#, CSS, C++, TypeScript, Ruby, C, and Swift. Rust was in 19th spot. Notably, though, Java was not one of the languages to see much growth on GitHub.

Python's saving grace can be found within the original premise above: all other things being equal, shorter code is more likely to be bug-free. When you combine Python's dynamic typing with its ...

The C#/.NET SDK reached v1.0.1 in December 2023, and the company has been working on the Python and Java versions since then, (see "Microsoft's Semantic Kernel SDK Ships with AI Agents, Plugins, ...