And Microsoft is reiterating at Data Amp the integration of R and Python (alongside the original integration of C#) into U-SQL in Azure Data Lake Analytics (ADLA).

Microsoft is integrating Python into its Excel app. A public preview is available for Microsoft 365 subscribers now and all the Python code runs on the Microsoft Cloud.

Python also ranked highly in Stack Overflow's 2017 developer survey, which found it was the fifth most popular language behind JavaScript, SQL, Java, and C#.