On March 7th, 2020 with 90 comments
An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet:
Python is tying with Java as the second most popular programming language behind JavaScript, according to developer analyst...
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On February 16th, 2020 with 74 comments
"Now budding Python developers can read up on the National Security Agency's own Python training materials," reports ZDNet:
Software engineer Chris Swenson...
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On January 22nd, 2020 with 107 comments
One of China's top science research institutes has suspended an academic after finding that his "fully independently developed" programming language was based...
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On January 13th, 2020 with 325 comments
This week a former engineer for the Microsoft Windows Core OS Division shared an insightful (and very entertaining) list with "some changes I have noticed over...
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On December 8th, 2019 with 130 comments
"Users of an old version of the popular Python language face a reckoning at the end of the year," reports Wired, calling it a programmer's "own version of...
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On December 4th, 2019 with 29 comments
The Python security team removed two trojanized Python libraries from PyPI (Python Package Index) that were caught stealing SSH and GPG keys from the projects...
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On December 1st, 2019 with 297 comments
Dropbox's Work in Progress blog shared a 2000-word "conversation with the creator of the world's most popular programming language," noting that many computer...
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On November 9th, 2019 with 61 comments
"The hit programming language Python has climbed over once-dominant Java to become the second most popular language on Microsoft-owned open-source code-sharing...
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On November 2nd, 2019 with 41 comments
"Guido van Rossum, the creator of the hugely popular Python programming language, is leaving cloud file storage firm Dropbox and heading into retirement,"...
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On November 1st, 2019 with 38 comments
The steering council of Python said it is adopting a 12-month release cycle as it seeks to bring more consistency to schedule. In their mailing list they...
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On October 26th, 2019 with 118 comments
The senior editor of Dice Insights writes:
Which programming languages are most in-demand by employers? That's an excellent (and vital) question for developers...
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On September 30th, 2019 with 63 comments
An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet:
Microsoft has launched a new 44-part series called Python for Beginners on YouTube, consisting of three- to four-minute...
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On September 15th, 2019 with 110 comments
In 107 days, Python 2 -- first released in 2000 -- will officially sunset, according to an announcement this week by "volunteers who make and take care of the...
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On August 24th, 2019 with 50 comments
Python's End-of-Life date is 129 days away, warns the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). "There will be no more bug fixes, or security updates, from...
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On August 11th, 2019 with 89 comments
This week from 63-year-old Python creator Guido van Rossum shared some interesting stories with ZDNet's senior reporter Nick Heath:
While sharing software...
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On July 20th, 2019 with 151 comments
An anonymous reader quotes LWN:
Python 3.8 is feature complete at this point, which makes it a good time to see what will be part of it when the final release...
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On June 17th, 2019 with 194 comments
"JetBrains released its State of Developer Ecosystem 2019 report, which found while Java is still the most popular primary language and JavaScript is the most...
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On June 15th, 2019 with 266 comments
Python reached another new all-time high on the TIOBE index, now representing 8.5% of the results for the search query +"<language> programming" on the...
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On May 26th, 2019 with 39 comments
"Learn to build quantum algorithms from the ground up with a quantum computer simulated in your browser," suggests a new online course.
"The very concept...
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On May 26th, 2019 with 100 comments
A post this week on Microsoft's developer blog explains "what we, the Python team, have done to make Python easier to install on Windows" after the next...
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On May 5th, 2019 with 230 comments
Stefan Nilsson, a computer science professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, recently explained "why I prefer Go to Java or Python," arguing that Go...
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On May 5th, 2019 with 137 comments
"Swapnil Bhartiya, the founder of TFIR, sat down with Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, to talk about the origin of the language and why he stepped down...
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On May 2nd, 2019 with 202 comments
The next time you're streaming on Netflix, you can thank popular programming language Python and the developers who use it for much of the experience. From a...
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On April 21st, 2019 with 463 comments
Alex Gaynor is a software engineer at Mozilla working on Firefox, after previously serving as a director of both the Python Software Foundation and the Django...
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On April 21st, 2019 with 84 comments
"At the first annual charity event conducted by Puget Sound Programming Python on April 2, four legendary language creators came together to discuss the past...
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On April 18th, 2019 with 111 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: In a step toward its goal of building out a data science development stack for web browsers, Mozilla...
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On April 12th, 2019 with 268 comments
angel'o'sphere shares a report: The annual Stack Overflow survey is one of the most comprehensive snapshots of how programmers work, with this year's poll...
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On April 8th, 2019 with 161 comments
C++ has knocked machine-learning favorite Python out of the top 3 in the TIOBE Index of popular programming languages. From a report: It marks a reversal of...
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On March 24th, 2019 with 330 comments
A new report from the open source security company WhiteSource asks the question, "Is one programming language more secure than the rest?"
An anonymous...
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On February 9th, 2019 with 42 comments
Over 20,000 programmers from more than 150 different countries provided answers for the second annual Python Developers Survey (conducted by the Python...
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