Python has become the second-most-popular language in GitHub, overtaking Java for the first time and ranking just behind JavaScript, according to GitHub’s 2019 State of the Octoverse report on usage of the popular code-sharing site.
Driving Python’s growth is increased use by data science professionals as well as hobbyists, GitHub reasons. The rankings were based on the number of unique contributors to public and private repos tagged with the appropriate primary language.
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