Unsurprisingly, Python dominated among big data developers that use Apache Spark analytics engine, with 66% citing Python as the language they use with Spark, followed by Java at 34% and Scala at 11%.

I’d be happy to compare Java applets to any of Python’s browser-based capabilities. Apples to applets comparisons For 20 years, Java applets made it possible to run Java code in a browser. Python has ...

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