But Python is not the only option for programming machine learning applications. There’s a growing community of developers who are using JavaScript to run machine learning models.

Python has become the most popular programming language on GitHub, while the use of Jupyter Notebooks has also soared, according to GitHub’s Octoverse 2024 report.

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages ...

JetBrains asked developers to pick up to three languages they consider their primary programming language. In this context, JavaScript comes out on top (39%), followed Java (37%), and Python (31%).

Whatever the reason, by November 2018 Python's share of questions asked each month on Stack Overflow rose to 11.3 percent, ahead of JavaScript's share of 10.2 percent.

The 2023 Premium Learn to Code Certification Bundle features 14 different e-courses that introduce students to popular platforms such as Python, Ruby on Rails, C++, and JavaScript.

Last year, Python passed Java as the second-most popular language on GitHub by repository contributors and it continued to maintain its runners-up position this year as well.