Microsoft's separate Jupyter notebooks extension aims to improve support for Python's programming language rivals.

For those unaware, Jupyter Notebook is a web-based development environment that lets programmers arrange and configure their workflows when programming. The extension links Jupyter Notebook with ...

The survey found that Python is more popular than Java overall. A total of 52% reported using Python this year, compared to 49% who said they used Java. Last year it was 55% to Java and 54% to Python.