After 20 years at the top of the programming-language tree, Java looks set to be overtaken by Python.

Python has cemented its place among the top three most popular programming languages, having seen the largest rise of any language in Tiobe's search engine based rankings.

In 2025, the integration of AI and Python will become increasingly tight. OpenAI's free inference model, o3 - mini, has excelled in areas such as mathematical code generation and physical simulation.

Python remains popular for data exploration, processing and engineering Younger developers are still using the coding ...

Java's days as the world's second most popular programming language could be numbered according to Tiobe's latest programming language rankings which show Python is becoming increasingly popular ...

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense" following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python's syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than ...