Microsoft extends Playwright web-app testing tool from programming language JavaScript to Python.

According to The Register, the project was created with the help of core Python developer Christian Heimes, and could make Python a viable alternative to JavaScript, at least for some web ...

Python is used heavily across machine learning, data science, and scientific computing, among many other areas ranging from web development to home automation, GitHub found in its report.

On the web front end, web development is one size fits all: JavaScript. The Transcrypt Python to JavaScript compiler aims to execute Python 3.6 at JavaScript speed, with comparable file sizes.

A new developer survey about Python reveals the programming language is now used primarily for data analysis, supplanting the previous No. 1 use case, Web development.