And Microsoft is reiterating at Data Amp the integration of R and Python (alongside the original integration of C#) into U-SQL in Azure Data Lake Analytics (ADLA).

Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel The two worlds of Excel and Python are colliding thanks to Microsoft’s new integration to boost data analysis and visualizations.

Python also ranked highly in Stack Overflow's 2017 developer survey, which found it was the fifth most popular language behind JavaScript, SQL, Java, and C#.