JetBrains asked developers to pick up to three languages they consider their primary programming language. In this context, JavaScript comes out on top (39%), followed Java (37%), and Python (31%).

Widely-used Python has now overtaken JavaScript as the programming language developers are most likely to have questions about on knowledge-sharing site Stack Overflow.

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 has become the most popular programming language on GitHub, while the use of Jupyter Notebooks has also soared, according to GitHub’s Octoverse 2024 report.

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages ...

Python is clearly the best choice, unless a better choice is Java or JavaScript. Let’s compare.

With non-compiled languages like Python or JavaScript, it can be quite time-consuming to locate bugs once you’ve realized that your code isn’t behaving as expected.