Open source software has come of its age. Today it’s impossible to think of a platform company that doesn’t have an open source strategy. Even Microsoft – a company that once compared open source to ...

Google's Python engineers have launched a new project called Unladen Swallow, which aims to bring a major performance boost to the Python programming language by making runtime speed five times faster ...

Several online news outlets report that Google laid off its entire Python language team. However, Google denied that the layoffs were company-wide when asked about the fate of the team. Python has ...

Anyone doing much work with data these days knows Python is hot, and that it's become the programming language of choice for data science. So while the news of Python's popularity may not be ...

Ransomware is driving developer interest in cybersecurity while the Internet of Things and games development has spurred more interest in 35-year-old programming language C++, according to O'Reilly ...

The original open source software “Benevolent Dictator For Life” and author of Python, Guido van Rossum, is leaving Google to join Dropbox, the startup will announce later today. Van Rossum was a ...