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Python Stories
November 2025
November 2025
October 2025
October 2025
August 2025
Florida Deploys Robot Rabbits To Control Invasive Burmese Python Population 75 comments
Survey Finds More Python Developers Like PostgreSQL, AI Coding Agents - and Rust for Packages 85 comments
Python Surges in Popularity. And So Does Perl 80 comments
How Python is Fighting Open Source's 'Phantom' Dependencies Problem 33 comments
August 2025
June 2025
Python Creator Guido van Rossum Asks: Is 'Worse is Better' Still True for Programming Languages? 67 comments
New Code.org Curriculum Aims To Make Schoolkids Python-Literate and AI-Ready 50 comments
June 2025
May 2025
May 2025
April 2025
April 2025
March 2025
Malicious PyPI Package Exploited Deezer's API, Orchestrates a Distributed Piracy Operation 24 comments
March 2025
February 2025
February 2025
January 2025
January 2025
December 2024
December 2024
November 2024
November 2024
October 2024
C Drops, Java (and Rust) Climb in Popularity - as Coders Seek Easy, Secure Languages 108 comments
The Treasurer of Python NZ Pleads Guilty To Stealing From the Society 20 comments
October 2024
September 2024
Fake Python Coding Tests Installed Malicious Software Packages From North Korea 22 comments
JavaScript, Python, Java: Redmonk's Programming Language Ranking Sees Lack of Change 30 comments
Python, JavaScript, Java: ZDNet Calculates The Most Popular Programming Languages 39 comments
September 2024
August 2024
August 2024
July 2024
Python GitHub Token Leak Shows Binary Files Can Burn Developers Too 20 comments
Fedora 41 Finally Retires Python 2.7 25 comments
July 2024
June 2024
June 2024
April 2024
Fake Job Interviews Target Developers With New Python Backdoor 16 comments
Rust, Python, Apache Foundations and Others Announce Big Collaboration on Cybersecurity Process Specifications 42 comments
April 2024
January 2024
Python Software Foundation Says EU's 'Cyber Resilience Act' Includes Wins for Open Source 18 comments
Three Packages Targeting Linux with Crypto Miners Found in Python's 'PyPi' Repository 17 comments
January 2024
November 2023
How Mojo Hopes to Revamp Python for an AI World 28 comments
Python Community Announces Podcast, Developer's Survey, PyCharm Discount 19 comments
Highly Invasive Backdoors Hidden in Python Obfuscation Packages, Downloaded by 2,348 Developers 50 comments
November 2023
October 2023
FTX Used Python Code To Fake Its Insurance Fund Figure 104 comments
Microsoft Drops Official Support for Python 3.7 in Visual Studio Code 24 comments
OpenAI to Release Its Python SDK 5 comments
7% of Python Developers Are Still Using Python 2, Annual Survey Finds 53 comments
Here's What's New in Python 3.12 39 comments
October 2023
September 2023
IEEE Specctrum Announces Top Programming Languages of 2023: Python and SQL 102 comments
September 2023
August 2023
Microsoft Announces Python In Excel 92 comments
August 2023
July 2023
Is C++ Gaining in Popularity? 106 comments
July 2023
May 2023
Python 3.12 Brings New Features and Fixes 30 comments
PyPI Was Subpoenaed 31 comments
Python's PyPi Package Repository Temporarily Halted New Signups, Citing 'Volume of Malicious Projects' 24 comments
Google Colab Promises 'AI-Powered Coding, Free of Charge' 24 comments
'Mojo May Be the Biggest Programming Language Advance In Decades' 126 comments
Codon Compiler For Python Is Fast - but With Some Caveats 36 comments
Swift Creator's Company Builds New Programming Language 'Mojo' - a Python Superset 82 comments
'Faster, Leaner' Python 3.12 Released Today with Improvements to Speed, Multiprocessing 53 comments
May 2023
April 2023
Python Foundation Raises Concerns Over EU's Proposed Cybersecurity Rules 40 comments
Can Codon 'Turbocharge Python's Notoriously Slow Compiler'? 82 comments
April 2023
March 2023
March 2023
January 2023
January 2023
November 2022
November 2022
October 2022
JavaScript Still Tops Python and Java in RedMonk's Latest Rankings, While Go and TypeScript Rise 54 comments
October 2022
August 2022
'Unstoppable' Python Remains More Popular than C and Java 177 comments
August 2022
July 2022
PyPI Is Rolling Out 2FA For Critical Projects, Giving Away 4,000 Security Keys 19 comments
July 2022
June 2022
Python 3.11 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Fantastic 205 comments
June 2022
May 2022
Is Python About to Get Faster? 134 comments
Want to Run Python Code in a Browser? Soon You Might Be Able To 88 comments
May 2022
March 2022
March 2022
February 2022
February 2022
January 2022
Apple Finally Removing Python 2 In macOS 12.3 70 comments
TIOBE Announces that the Programming Language of the Year Was Python 90 comments
January 2022
October 2021
Python Core Developers Release Version 3.10 -- First Major Release Since Transition from Python 2 27 comments
Beating C and Java, Python Becomes the #1 Most Popular Programming Language, Says TIOBE 115 comments
October 2021
September 2021
September 2021
August 2021
Rust is the Most Loved Language For the 6th Year in a Row in Stack Overflow Study 95 comments
Are Python Libraries Riddled With Security Holes? 68 comments
August 2021
July 2021
Could Python Overtake C and Java as the Most Popular Programming Language? 170 comments
July 2021
June 2021
June 2021
May 2021
How Spam Flooded the Official Python Software Package Repository PyPI 41 comments
Microsoft Funds a Team with Guido van Rossum to Double the Speed of Python 153 comments
Survey Confirms Popularity of JavaScript, Python, C/C++, While C# Overtakes PHP 68 comments
May 2021
February 2021
Python Turns 30. A Steering Council Member Reflects 83 comments
C Passed Java to Take #1 Spot on TIOBE's Index 102 comments
Golang Approves Generics, While Python Accepts Pattern-Matching Proposals 84 comments
February 2021
January 2021
Python Named Programming Language of the Year by 'Somewhat Dubious' TIOBE Index 75 comments
January 2021
December 2020
December 2020
November 2020
What Will Happen After Python Creator Guido Van Rossum Joins Microsoft? 108 comments
Python Creator Guido van Rossum Joins Microsoft 77 comments
Python Overtakes Java To Become The Second-Most Popular Programming Language 103 comments
November 2020
October 2020
Does Python Need to Change? 233 comments
Is Python Becoming More Popular Than Java? 107 comments
New Python 3.9 'Brings Significant Changes' To Language Features 74 comments
Microsoft and NASA Create a Space-Themed Site Teaching Python Programming 24 comments
October 2020
August 2020
Scientist Proposes a New Programming Language For Teaching Coding (and Python) 160 comments
What Makes Some Programming Languages the 'Most Dreaded'? 137 comments
InfoWorld Lists 'Four Powerful Features Python is Still Missing' 79 comments
Python Overtakes Java in New Language Popularity Ranking, As Rust Reaches Top 20 91 comments
August 2020
July 2020
July 2020
June 2020
Python Overtakes Java? JetBrains Releases 'State of Developer Ecosystem' Survey 67 comments
June 2020
May 2020
C Is Now the Most Popular Programming Language, Claims TIOBE 246 comments
May 2020
April 2020
April 2020
March 2020
Python Finally Ties With Java In RedMonk's New Programming Language Rankings 90 comments
March 2020
February 2020
February 2020
January 2020
How Is Computer Programming Different Today Than 20 Years Ago? 325 comments
January 2020
December 2019
Two Malicious Python Libraries Caught Stealing SSH and GPG Keys 29 comments
Guido van Rossum Explains How Python Makes Thinking in Code Easier 297 comments
December 2019
November 2019
Python Creator Guido van Rossum Retires, Heads To Python Conference 41 comments
Python Adopts a 12-month Release Cycle 38 comments
November 2019
October 2019
Python Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors In Over 100 Published Studies 121 comments
October 2019
September 2019
Python 2 Sunsets in 107 Days. JPMorgan Isn't Ready 110 comments
September 2019
August 2019
Guido van Rossum Looks at Python's Past, Present, and Future 89 comments
August 2019
July 2019
July 2019
June 2019
Python Passes C++ on TIOBE Index, Predicted To Pass C and Java 266 comments
June 2019
May 2019
Microsoft Adds Python To Windows -- Sort Of 100 comments
'Why I Prefer Go Over Python or Java' 230 comments
Python Creator Guido van Rossum Blames His Resignation Partly On Social Media 137 comments
Netflix Says Python Programming Language is Behind Every Film You Stream 202 comments
May 2019
April 2019
Historic 'Summit' with the Creators of Python, Java, TypeScript, and Perl 84 comments
Mozilla To Bring Python To Browsers 111 comments
The Most Loved and Most Disliked Programming Languages Revealed in Stack Overflow Survey 268 comments
Most Popular Programming Languages: C++ Knocks Python Out of Top Three in New Study 161 comments
April 2019
March 2019
March 2019
February 2019
AI-Driven Python Code-Completion Tool 'Kite' Attracts $17M In Investments 87 comments
February 2019
January 2019
Eben Upton Remembers The Years Before the First Raspberry Pi 106 comments
January 2019
December 2018
How Microsoft Embraced Python 163 comments
December 2018
October 2018
Economics Nobel Laureate Paul Romer Is a Python Programming Convert 106 comments
October 2018
September 2018
Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms 1342 comments
September 2018
July 2018
Is Python the Future of Programming? 300 comments
Python Language Founder Steps Down 241 comments
July 2018
May 2018
A Middle-Aged Writer's Quest To Start Learning To Code For the First Time 183 comments
May 2018
February 2018
February 2018
January 2018
Which Programming Languages Are Most Prone to Bugs? 247 comments
January 2018
December 2017
Did Programming Language Flaws Create Insecure Apps? 100 comments
December 2017
November 2017
November 2017
September 2017
Python's Official Repository Included 10 'Malicious' Typo-Squatting Modules 69 comments
Is Python Really the Fastest-Growing Programming Language? 254 comments
September 2017
August 2017
GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers 239 comments
August 2017
July 2017
How Rust Can Replace C In Python Libraries 304 comments
IEEE Spectrum Declares Python The #1 Programming Language 372 comments
Open Source Contributions More Important Than Tabs Vs Spaces For Salary 164 comments
July 2017
June 2017
June 2017
May 2017
The Working Dead: Which IT Jobs Are Bound For Extinction? 581 comments
May 2017
April 2017
Stack Overflow Reveals Which Programming Languages Are Most Used At Night 99 comments
Microsoft Will Support Python In SQL Server 2017 98 comments
DeepMind Open Sources 'Sonnet' Library For Easier Creation Of Neural Networks 17 comments
April 2017
March 2017
RedMonk Identifies 2017's Most Popular Languages: JavaScript, Java, And Python 125 comments
Ask Slashdot: How To Teach Generic Engineers Coding, Networking, and Computing? 197 comments
March 2017
February 2017
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Started With Programming? [2017 Edition] 312 comments
February 2017
January 2017
Google Boosts Python By Turning It Into Go 129 comments
January 2017
December 2016
Python 3.6 Released 187 comments
December 2016
October 2016
O'Reilly Gives Away Free Programming Ebooks 87 comments
October 2016
September 2016
A New Programming Language Expands on Google's Go 173 comments
US Would Be 28th In 'Hacking Olympics', China Would Take The Gold 112 comments
September 2016
August 2016
August 2016
July 2016
C Top Programming Language For 2016, Finds IEEE's Study 315 comments
The Slashdot Interview With Larry Wall 167 comments
TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly 348 comments
Slackware 14.2 Released, Still Systemd-Free 179 comments
July 2016
June 2016
June 2016
April 2016
Interview With Python Creator Guido Van Rossum 222 comments
April 2016
March 2016
BorgBackup 1.0.0 Released 64 comments
Google Says Angular 2 Will Support Python, Java 92 comments
March 2016
February 2016
Python 3 Is Coming To Scrapy 87 comments
February 2016
January 2016
January 2016
December 2015
December 2015
November 2015
With TensorFlow, Google Open Sources Its Machine Learning Resources 37 comments
Ask Slashdot: How Can My Code Help? 47 comments
November 2015
October 2015
Ask Slashdot: Selecting a Version Control System For an Inexperienced Team 325 comments
October 2015
August 2015
August 2015
July 2015
July 2015
June 2015
June 2015
March 2015
How Device Drivers Are Reverse Engineered 27 comments
March 2015
February 2015
February 2015
January 2015
Justified: Visual Basic Over Python For an Intro To Programming 648 comments
Learn Gate-Array Programming In Python and Software-Defined Radio 51 comments
Unofficial WhatsApp Library Gets End To End Encryption Before Official Clients 29 comments
January 2015
December 2014
The Life of an ATLAS Physicist At CERN 34 comments
December 2014
October 2014
BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer 429 comments
October 2014
September 2014
September 2014
July 2014
Ask Slashdot: Switching From SAS To Python Or R For Data Analysis and Modeling? 143 comments
July 2014
May 2014
LegoTechno -- Making Music With Lego Bricks, Python, OpenCV and a Groovebox 5 comments
Job Postings For Python, NoSQL, Apache Hadoop Way Up This Year 52 comments
May 2014
March 2014
March 2014
January 2014
Why Do Projects Continue To Support Old Python Releases? 432 comments
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