Python overtakes Java to become second most popular programming language | Upskill with the best Python training institute in India

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Python's recent surge in popularity can be attributed to an ascend in data mining, artificial intelligence (AI), and numerical computing, TIOBE stated.

First engendered in 1991, Python has optically discerned a recent surge in popularity due to how it's now being utilized by data scientists and in machine learning. However, Tiobe's CEO Paul Jansen has a different theory which he provided further insight on in the TIOBE Index for November 2020, verbalizing:

“I believe that Python's popularity has to do with general demand. In the past, most programming activities were performed by software engineers. But programming skills are needed everywhere nowadays and there is a lack of good software developers. Consequently, we require something simple that can be handled by non-software engineers, something facile to learn with expeditious edit cycles and smooth deployment. Python meets all these desiderata.”

Rounding out the rest of Tiobe's latest index, C++ took fourth place followed by C#, Visual Rudimentary, JavaScript, Php, R, and SQL to make up the rest of the top ten most popular programming languages.

Python has long been a top-doted programming language, as has Java, but if Jansen is correct there could be a long-term shift coming in which Python becomes ascendant simply because of how it's been marketed as easier to learn and still capable of doing all the things that Java can.