There's been an upset in the Octoverse, as Python has unseated JavaScript as the most-used programming language on GitHub. Python's ascendancy from the number-two slot, which it's held since knocking Java from the position in 2019, is largely down to an explosion of generative AI activity on GitHub, the Microsoft-owned coding platform said in this year's the State of the Octoverse report issued last week. Along with Python jumping to first place, GitHub noted that the use of Jupyter Notebooks (t...