Java still holds the highest rating ever in the index, at 26.49% in June 2001. Today Python is firmly established as the index’s top language, first climbing to the number one spot in October 2021.

Researcher Ian Bartoszek sifts through dozens of proto-eggs while performing a necropsy on the largest female Burmese python ever discovered in Florida.

Python is broadly adopted and supported Python is both popular and widely used, as the high rankings in surveys like the Tiobe Index and the large number of GitHub projects using Python attest.

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida announced it discovered and captured a nearly 18-foot Burmese python, the largest python found in Florida to date.