Python popularity climbs to highest ever – Tiobe

Python continues to soar in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, rising to a 25.35% share in May 2025. It’s the highest Tiobe rating for any language since 2001, when Java topped the chart. Python’s popularity increased roughly 2.2 percentage points in...

Comparing the AI code generators

Every developer has now pasted code into ChatGPT or watched GitHub Copilot autocomplete a function. If that’s your only exposure, it’s easy to conclude that coding with large language models (LLMs) isn’t “there yet.” In practice, model quality and specialization are...

Running PyTorch on an Arm Copilot+ PC

When Microsoft launched its Copilot+ PC range almost a year ago, it announced that it would deliver the Copilot Runtime, a set of tools to help developers take advantage of the devices’ built-in AI accelerators, in the shape of neural processing units (NPUs). Instead...

Node.js 24 drops MSVC support

Node.js 24 has been released. The latest version of the open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime upgrades the Google V8 JavaScript engine to version 13.6 and the NPM package manager to version 11. Node.js 24 also drops support for MSVC, Microsoft’s C/C++...

The best new features and fixes in Python 3.14

The first beta release of Python 3.14 is now available. This article presents a rundown of the most significant new features in the next version of Python and what they mean for Python developers. Major new features in Python 3.14 These are the most significant new...