Python, the programming language that found a home in machine learning, is now the most popular language, according to one popularity ranking. Programming languages rise and fall in popularity ...

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense" following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.

Despite a rocky transition from Python 2 to Python 3, developers are still flocking to the programming language.

Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python's past and explores what's next.