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In the digital age, entrepreneurs owe it to themselves to develop a technical education as well as a business one. For anyone working in the tech space, that means learning how to program. And there's ...

Python still leads despite a dip; C edges past C++ for #2; SQL re-enters the top 10 as Perl drops out after last month’s brief surge.

Python has become a language of choice, not just for developers but more and more businesses are relying on it as the backbone of their operations. Just what has contributed to the uncontested rise in ...

It's been a leap-ahead year for Python—bringing on more speed, less cruft, and a large and growing user base. Credit: Pavel L Photo and Video / Shutterstock Over the course of 2024, Python has proven ...

The widespread adoption of AI is creating a paradigm shift in the software engineering world. Python has quickly become the programming language of choice for AI development due to its usability, ...

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Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...