Python 3.14 was the star of the show in 2025, bringing official support for free-threaded builds, a new all-in-one installation manager for Windows, and subtler perks like the new template strings feature. Other great updates this year included a growing toolkit of Rust-backed Python tools, several new options for packaging and distributing Python applications, and a sweet little trove of third-party libraries for parallel processing in Python. Here’s our list of the 10 best and most-read stories for Python developers in 2025. Enjoy!

**What is Python? Powerful, intuitive programming **Start here, with a top-down view of what makes Python a versatile powerhouse for modern software development, from data science and machine learning to web development and systems automation.

**The best new features and fixes in Python 3.14 **Released in October 2025, the latest edition of Python makes free-threaded Python an officially supported feature, adds experimental JIT powers, and brings new tools for managing Python versions.

**How to boost Python program performance with Zig **The emerging Zig language, making a name as a safer alternative to C, can also be coupled closely with Python—the better to create Python libraries that run at machine-native speed.

**PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python **This new project lets you use Python as a kind of high-level macro system to generate C-equivalent code that can run as standalone programs, and with some unique memory safety features you won’t find in C.