It’s spiffy and convenient, but most everyone who uses Python knows it’s comparatively creaky — orders of magnitude slower than C, Java, or JavaScript for CPU-intensive work. But several ...

There's been an upset in the Octoverse, as Python has unseated JavaScript as the most-used programming language on GitHub.… Python's ascendancy from the number-two slot, which it's held since ...

Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster ...

Sentry, the Accel-backed company that creates bug-monitoring software for app developers, announced its latest product today. Called Performance ...

Google's Python engineers have launched a new project called Unladen Swallow, which aims to bring a major performance boost to the Python programming language by making runtime speed five times ...