Python recently celebrated its 30th birthday, and pioneers of the language have been reflecting on its significance as an open source project.

But Python’s killer features—simple syntax that makes its code easy to learn and share, and its huge array of third-party packages—make it a good general-purpose language.

Python these days is a top-two programming language and is even more popular than Java, the widely used software that Oracle gained after its 2008 acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

But don't worry, say Python maintainers, attackers can only stall your machine even though technically it is remotely exploitable.

There are numerous ways to run large language models such as DeepSeek, Claude or Meta's Llama locally on your laptop, including Ollama and Modular's Max platform. But if you want to fully control the ...