Python beats Java and top's best in the programming language

Python's popularity is ahead of Java for the first time

The latest Tiobe Index shows that Python at 35 years old surpassed Java for the first time as the second most popular programming language. Python is the top choice for data science and machine learning projects and is now second only to C. This is the first time in the nearly 20-year history of the Tiobe Index that Java and C are not the two top languages. In the programming language popularity ranking of RedMonk, a developer analysis agency in July, Python also snatched second place from Java. However, RedMonk ranks JavaScript as the top language. This is the first time that RedMonk's top two are not composed of Java or JavaScript.

Adobe officially abolished all Flash components in its popular PDF products

Adobe has removed all Flash components in the latest versions of its PDF products such as Acrobat and Reader before the official death of Flash in December 2020. In the past, there were some options or buttons in Acrobat that could collect user responses from form files that depended on Flash. Now they have been replaced by an auxiliary toolbar. These deletions are part of the industry’s efforts to eliminate Flash from mainstream browsers by the end of this year. Adobe, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Mozilla announced in 2017 that they would end support for Flash in browsers by December 2020.

Linux Mint builds its own Chromium browser

For many years, Linux Mint has been using the Chromium version built by Ubuntu. But the Chromium version released by Canonical, the developer of Ubuntu, began to migrate from the APT-compatible DEB package to the Snap packaging format. Snap reduces dependency problems by integrating different libraries that need to be loaded, but it also has the defect of too large capacity and slow startup. Canonical's push for the Snap packaging format has caused controversy in the community. While Linux Mint announced earlier that it would not install any Snap applications, it has now decided to use source code to build its own version of Chromium.