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Microsoft Deepening its Commitment to Python Microsoft is deepening its support for the Python programming language and its ecosystem, making a significant investment. Python is one of the most popular programming languages in the world. Its extensible nature makes it a powerful language that is widely used across industry and academia. The language is also thepreferred language for machine learning applications, increasing its popularity even more. Microsoft has invested $150,000 in the Python Software Foundation, boosting support that goes back to 2006. The company’s increased commitm...

Jessica Upani discovered the open source programming language Python at the PyCon Namibia conference in 2015. She was a mathematics and computer science student at the University of Namibia at the time, but her school work focused mostly on Java. “The conference was free, so I thought ‘why not?’” she says. By the end of the four-day conference, she had learned enough to write a small program. “I loved that I could build something so fast,” Upani says. “And I loved the community. I wanted to share that experience with others.” So she founded PyLadies Namibia, a chapter of an in...

Google Funds Two Full-Time Linux Security Developers To help Linux maintainers stay ahead of the black hats, Google has funded two full-time Linux security developers. Linux is becoming more secure. Google and the Linux Foundation recently announced that Google will fund two full-time Linux  security developers to focus entirely on securing the kernel. There's always room for Linux security improvements – especially with a project that currently weighs-in at close to 29 million lines of code, meaning there's plenty of room for mistakes. Since Linux is open source, the code is also fr...

By Team Commerce 2021-02-28 04:55:00 UTC Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over the Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language. The one he used in projects at work was overcomplicated and clunky, but he thought he could use some of its better features to create something more forgiving, flexible, and easier to read. Van Rossen developed his language mostly in his free time over the course of the next year, eventually deciding to name it "Python" after the British comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus, whose published...

The most-wanted features by Python developers are static typing and strict type hinting, closely followed by performance improvements, Python Software Foundation survey results reveal.