There's been an upset in the Octoverse, as Python has unseated JavaScript as the most-used programming language on GitHub.… Python's ascendancy from the number-two slot, which it's held since ...

Python isn't the only option for programming machine learning applications: there’s a growing group of developers who use JavaScript to run machine learning models.

Python on the web "The new project which Christian Heimes and I are working on has a goal of making the web a supported platform for CPython, just like Windows or macOS ," Smith told The Register.

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.

Last year, Python passed Java as the second-most popular language on GitHub by repository contributors and it continued to maintain its runners-up position this year as well.

Java, JavaScript and Python are invariably the three most popular programming languages in several indexes, but their exact order varies depending on how the ranking is calculated. Lately most ...