GitHub’s annual "State of the Octoverse" report has found that systems programming languages Python and Rust are rising. In 2024, Python overtook JavaScript as the most popular language on GitHub.

Overview: C and C++ remain the most important languages for fast, low-memory embedded devices. Newer languages like Rust and Python bring safety, simplicity, an ...

Read about the big new Python 3.14 release, a Rust-powered utility to package Python apps to go, a smarter Python package manager, a Python rival for AI development, and more in our biweekly Python ...

Pyrefly and Ty: Two new Rust-powered Python type-checking tools compared These tools are so new they barely have the shrinkwrap off, but even at this stage, they stand apart from each other and the ...