Programming language Python's popularity: Ahead of Java for first time but still trailing C Python is now the second most popular language in the nearly 20-year-old Tiobe index.

Python continues to shake Java from its spot as one of the top programming languages.

Python comes with a simple IDE called IDLE. Eclipse and Netbeans are two fully featured IDEs often used for programming in Java, JavaScript and HTML. Visual Studio is an IDE largely designed to ...