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Employers want JavaScript, but developers want Python

Employers also want developers skilled in React.js, Angular, and Node.js—but fewer developers have those skills

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Get started with Anaconda Python, the distro for data science

It provides a management GUI, a slew of scientifically oriented work environments, and tools to simplify the process of using Python for data crunching

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C completes comeback in programming popularity

The once-faltering language wins Programming Language of the Year award from the Tiobe Index

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Julia vs. Python: Julia language rises for data science

Python has turned into a data science and machine learning mainstay, while Julia was built from the ground up to do the job

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Virtualenv and venv: Python virtual environments explained

Take advantage of virtual environments in Python 2 and Python 3 to manage conflicts between Python projects

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Spark tutorial: Get started with Apache Spark

A step by step guide to loading a dataset, applying a schema, writing simple queries, and querying real-time data with Structured Streaming

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Scripting languages slip in popularity

Developers are opting for safer languages, despite ease of use offered by scripting languages like Perl, PHP, and Ruby

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Stack Overflow reveals the most-disliked programming languages

Stack Overflow Jobs data shows that developers would prefer not to work with Perl, Delphi, Visual Basic, and PHP

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5 essential Python tools for data science—now improved

SciPy, Cython, Dask, HPAT, and Numba all have new versions that aid big data analytics and machine learning projects

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At GitHub, JavaScript rules in usage, TensorFlow leads in forks

Python and TypeScript makes big gains in pull requests, while Java slips to third place

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Why cloud platforms should invest in the promise of Python

Python has emerged as the language developers want to use more than any other for building data-intensive projects. Python now powers some of the most complex applications on the cloud

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6 essential libraries for every Python developer

Whether you're compiling Python for speed, building native UIs for Python desktop apps, or refining existing Python code, these Python projects have you covered

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Cython 0.27 speeds Python by moving away from oddball syntax

The latest version of the Python-to-C toolkit can use Python's own native type-hinting syntax to accelerate the conversion process

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6 machine learning projects to automate machine learning

Tweaking machine learning algorithms and models won't always be for experts only, thanks to these cutting-edge projects

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Why Python and C# can’t displace Java, C, or C++

As the programming language field gets more crowded and developers use more languages in their code, Python and C# suffer from inherent limits

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4 major fixes on the Python roadmap

Whether you're into machine learning, API building, devops, or containers and microservices, you will stand to gain from these Python advances

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3 projects lighting a fire under machine learning

PyTorch, MXNet, and upstart Java-centric Smile bring greater speed and ease to model training and deployment

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Build an app with Flask and Oracle Mobile Cloud Service

A step-by-step guide to defining an API with Flask and deploying to Oracle’s mobile back end as a service

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How to convert Python to JavaScript (and back again)

Love Python? JavaScript, not so much? Here are four tools that turn Python to JavaScript for use in web applications

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How Rust can replace C, with Python's help

Four new projects make it easier to develop Rust libraries with Python bindings, allowing Rust to replace C as a low-level Python partner

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