Guido van Rossum, the "Benevolent Dictator For Life" of Python, has had enough and is walking away from leading the popular open-source language.

Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python's past and explores what's next.

Last month, programming language Python celebrated its 30th anniversary. But without a team to maintain it, the language would likely have never have become as popular as it is today.

Python was named the world’s most popular programming language by IEEE Spectrum last year, so this change is a big one for the programming community. It follows the lead of Drupal and Django.

Python is versatile, simple, and has been a longtime favorite - but its sluggishness, runtime issues, and mobile app development woes doom its future.

Granted, Python is certainly not perfect. No language is. “Due to its interpreted nature, Python does not have the most efficient runtime performance,” said Story.

Nim, a language that’s been in development since 2008, is making a case as a mix of the best of many worlds: The compilation speed and cross-platform targeting of Go, the safe-by-default ...

CPython is the reference implementation of the open-source Python language used by other implementations such as Jython, which is written in Java that relies on a Java virtual machine (JVM).