Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster languages ...

Microsoft has released a new version of its hit Python extension for its cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that makes its Pylance language server the default. Microsoft started ...

VS Code is a popular choice because it’s free, flexible with lots of extensions, and has built-in Git support, making it a ...

Want to make a Python user grind their teeth? Just recite three words: Python is slow. In many of the ways that matter, it’s true. “Pure” Python, without external libraries written in C, is nowhere ...

What just happened? Elon Musk's xAI has introduced an agentic coding model aimed at delivering speed and cost efficiency for software development tasks. Called Grok Code Fast 1, the model is built on ...

If old Python networking and web libraries aren't fast enough for you, these new additions break speed limits and unleash new possibilities Faster, simpler, more “Pythonic” — those are the rallying ...

What do you get when you combine the No. 1 code editor with the No. 1 programming language for data science? You get more than 60 million installs of the Python ...