Python continues to shake Java from its spot as one of the top programming languages.

News Java, Python Tooling Advances in VS Code By David Ramel 08/01/2024 Microsoft's Visual Studio Code dev teams for Java and Python announced Gradle enhancements for the former and improved Python ...

When you compare Java vs. Python application development in terms of simplicity, conciseness, security and performance, Java comes out on top in every category.

Java has a lot going for it, but it's not the top language for data science. Java professionals may want to familiarize themselves with Python or R for data science workflows.