This is a complicated question, seeing as the two languages are actually quite ... possible to write functional/imperative code in Java, but Python lends itself better to this type of code.

The Visual Studio Code dev team was apparently on to something when it went all in on Python several years ago: It's poised to upend perennial No. 2 Java in the popular TIOBE Index of programming ...

Programming language Python is now firmly the second most popular programming language, for the first time knocking Java out of the top two places ... to reflect both code (GitHub) and discussion ...

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code dev teams for Java and Python announced Gradle enhancements for the former and improved Python discovery for the latter. The company updates its associated extensions on ...

According to SlashData, there are now 8.2 million developers in the world who code using Python and that population is now larger than those who build in Java, who number 7.6 million. Last ...

For the first time in more than 20 years, the Python programming language has ... for an 11.16 percent share on the index, while Java fell 2.11 percent to 10.46 percent. Other languages that ...

C and Java don’t occupy the top two spots, with Java slipping to third and Python taking its place. October’s TIOBE index had C at No. 1 and Java at No. 2, and historically those two languages ...