It also helps that, over time, it enjoys a robust and active developer community and incredibly rich eco-system of free libraries supporting all kind of usages: Web applications and services, desktop apps, scientific computing, scripting - you name it. It's reliable, flexible, easy to learn, open-source, and cross-platform since the beginning.
Python also ranks third in the “most loved” category.ĭespite the age (20 years and counting), Python's popularity keeps growing, and for good reasons.
In the Stack Overflow Developer Survey for 2018, Python sits comfortably in the first place as the most wanted programming language, with JavaScript and Go coming second and third.
