Python is eating the world: How one developer's side project became the hottest programming language on the planet

This is the interesting history of how it came into being, how it may not have come into being, and why its founder handed over the reins...

Frustrated by programming language shortcomings, Guido van Rossum created Python. With the language now used by millions, Nick Heath talks to van Rossum about Python's past and explores what's next.

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