It took the programming community a couple of decades to appreciate Python. But since the early 2010’s, it has been booming — and eventually surpassing C, C#, Java and JavaScript in popularity. But ...

The tech world is growing rapidly, demanding more skilled programmers. Yet, coding is still an intimidating mountain to climb for many, with its complex jargon and seemingly impenetrable logic.

Sitting around with "a lot of time on my hand," Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language ...