GitHub’s annual "State of the Octoverse" report has found that systems programming languages Python and Rust are rising. In 2024, Python overtook JavaScript as the most popular language on GitHub.

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Pyrefly and Ty: Two new Rust-powered Python type-checking tools compared These tools are so new they barely have the shrinkwrap off, but even at this stage, they stand apart from each other and the ...