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By: B. Cameron Gain on March 29, 2021Leave a CommentA ranking by analyst firm RedMonk reflects on Python’s continued popularity as a leading enterprise programming language for a number of reasons. According to a recent study by RedMonk, JavaScript also remains widely popular as the web development programming language of choice for a significant number organizations.

One lack of change that is worth surfacing is Python’s number-two spot,” Stephen O’Grady, a RedMonk co-founder and analyst writes in The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2021.

Python’s prolonged high ranking is notable because of its versatility, Rachel Stephens, a RedMonk analyst who is responsible for the RedMonk Language Rankings’ design, told DevOps.com.

While Python is not the fastest language, as measured in benchmarks listed in Hardcore Programming for Mechanical Engineers — Go consistently outperforms it, for example, in execution times — Python’s popularity remains very high overall, according to the book’s author.“These results are not surprising; Python is an extremely versatile and productive language,” author Ángel Sola Orbaiceta wrote.