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I'm a big fan of Python for data analysis, but even I get curious about what else is available. R has long been the go-to ...

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TIOBE Index for October 2025: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent The October TIOBE Programming Community Index brought a few quiet but meaningful shifts. Python remains ...

Serving tens of millions of developers, Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code shipped a new release with three major new features, including a "full" language server mode for Pylance, ...

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