Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python's past and explores what's next.

[Damien George] just created Micro Python (Kickstarter alert!), a lean and fast implementation of the Python scripting language that is optimized to run on a microcontroller. It includes a complete… ...

Python was created in 1989 by Guido van Rossum who returned from retirement last year to work for Microsoft 's expanding open-source teams. Previously, he'd headed up Python efforts at Dropbox.

Spiffy and convenient as Python is, most everyone who uses the language knows it’s comparatively creaky—orders of magnitude slower than C, Java, or JavaScript for CPU-intensive work. But ...

Developers are still using Python for data tasks and AI, but many are still using older releases, putting productivity at ...

Google's Python engineers have launched a new project called Unladen Swallow, which aims to bring a major performance boost to the Python programming language by making runtime speed five times ...

Yearly report finds explosion of GenAI projects, new users from outside the coding community responsible for boost There's been an upset in the Octoverse, as Python has unseated JavaScript as the ...

Python is tying with Java as the second most popular programming language behind JavaScript, according to developer analyst RedMonk's latest ranking.