GitHub's annual report, Octoverse, shows that Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most popular programming language on GitHub for the first time. This was largely driven by a surge in demand for artificial intelligence (AI) development, with Python also being widely used for data science and open source project development. The report notes that contributions to projects related to generative AI have grown by 59% in the past year, with contributions to AI-related public projects almost doubling from 2023, with India, Germany, Japan and Singapore being among those contributing...