Also interestingly, VS Code's ascension to No. 1 in the Python developer survey has come fairly recently. In the 2018 survey, for example, it garnered only 16 percent of respondent votes, sandwiched ...

In what might be seen as a challenge to the super-popular combination of Visual Studio Code and its Python extension, JetBrains is testing its own IDE for data scientists called DataSpell.

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.