According to The Register, the project was created with the help of core Python developer Christian Heimes, and could make Python a viable alternative to JavaScript, at least for some web ...

On the web front end, web development is one size fits all: JavaScript. The Transcrypt Python to JavaScript compiler aims to execute Python 3.6 at JavaScript speed, with comparable file sizes.

In just 5 minutes, dive into the world of 15 powerful programming languages that shape the tech world. JavaScript, one of the ...

Along with Python jumping to first place, GitHub noted that the use of Jupyter Notebooks (the open source, web-based development notebooks designed for data science applications) rose by 92 ...

But Python is popular for backend web services, although he said that JavaScript dominates frontend web development. Increasingly, Microsoft's JavaScript superset TypeScript is being used by web ...

Python is used heavily across machine learning, data science, and scientific computing, among many other areas ranging from web development to home automation, GitHub found in its report.

A new developer survey about Python reveals the programming language is now used primarily for data analysis, supplanting the previous No. 1 use case, Web development.

Much of the Web has traditionally been created using dynamic languages, from Ajax on the client to server code written in PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby.

Python also ranked highly in Stack Overflow's 2017 developer survey, which found it was the fifth most popular language behind JavaScript, SQL, Java, and C#.