Running a project as big as Python is a huge undertaking. With more than a million lines of code, the programming language relies mainly on volunteers to keep it running and introduce new features.

Take dynamic typing as an example. It seems amazing at first: Python literally figures out by itself what sort of value a variable might take, and you don’t need to waste another line of code by ...

Whether it's speed, memory safety, portability, a micro footprint, data tools, or something else, one of these Python distros probably has it. When you choose Python for software development, you get ...

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Powerful, flexible, and programmer-friendly, Python is widely used for everything from web development to machine learning. By the two most-cited measures, Python has even surpassed the likes of Java ...

Discover the top 7 programming languages of 2025 based on the TIOBE Index. Learn about the trends in Python, Java, C++, SQL, ...

Python is eating the world: How one developer’s side project became the hottest programming language on the planet Your email has been sent Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...