But Python is not the only option for programming machine learning applications. There’s a growing community of developers who are using JavaScript to run machine learning models.

Although Python excels in one-off, general-purpose tasks, its biggest drawback is speed. It doesn’t match Java in supporting real-time tasks or financial transactions where milliseconds matter.

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.

JetBrains asked developers to pick up to three languages they consider their primary programming language. In this context, JavaScript comes out on top (39%), followed Java (37%), and Python (31%).

The 2023 Premium Learn to Code Certification Bundle features 14 different e-courses that introduce students to popular platforms such as Python, Ruby on Rails, C++, and JavaScript.

Whatever the reason, by November 2018 Python's share of questions asked each month on Stack Overflow rose to 11.3 percent, ahead of JavaScript's share of 10.2 percent.