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Which programming language should I use? A guide for early-career researchers

Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice.
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  1. Jeffrey M. Perkel
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Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October 2024, had some good news for pythonistas, as Python programmers are called: for the first time in ten years, the language JavaScript had been bumped from the top of the leader board and replaced by Python.

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Nature 640, 1116-1117 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01241-6

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