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Is Python squeezing the R programming language out of data science?

A report throws up another sign the popularity of R may be declining among data scientists.

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The R programming language has suffered yet another knock, dropping out of the TIOBE Index’s top 20 popular programming languages.

It’s the first time the language has fallen out of the top 20 in three years, with TIOBE attributing the decline to the dominance of Python in the…

Mozilla details Pyodide, which brings Python to browsers

In a step toward its goal of building out a data science development stack for web browsers, Mozilla today detailed Pyodide, an experimental Python project that’s designed to perform computation without the need for a remote kernel (i.e., a program that runs and inspects code).

As staff data engineer Mike Droettboom explained in a blog post, it’s a standard Python interpreter that runs entirely…

Most popular programming languages: C++ knocks Python out of top three

The TIOBE Index analysis says the resurgence of C++ is due to a leap in its popularity, rather than a fall in the use of Python.

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C++ has knocked machine-learning favorite Python out of the top 3 in the TIOBE Index of popular programming languages.

It marks a reversal of fortune for C++, which, after years of occupying third place in the index, was pushed d… Articles on…

Time to try the Julia programming language? Python challenger's new debugger fixes major complaint

Shortcomings in the data science-focused language are being addressed with the release of a “fully-featured debugger”.

Julia is a programming language with grand ambitions that recently hit its landmark 1.0 release.

But Julia’s tools for finding bugs in code hadn’t kept pace with the rest of the language and were still missing features.

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Learning programming languages for free: GitHub's best guides for Python developers

Use of the Python programming language has been growing at a prodigious rate for several years.

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Much of that growth has been fueled by the use of Python in burgeoning field of data science, which in 2018 became the most common use for Python, alongside web development and DevOps.

Demand for Python across these various fields remains strong, with a 2018 survey by HackerRank…

Why Python is the real programming language of data science, not R

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Python and R are among the most frequently mentioned skills in job postings for data science positions. But reports on which programming language is actually used most often on the job for these professionals are conflicting, according to a Thursday report from Cloud Academy.

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