Java or Python with Selenium which is better?

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Selenium Automates browser. It is a tool or a suite(Many other tools can be installed inside Selenium tools like TestNG, Maven etc) of tools. Selenium is a Parent tool for a range of tools and libraries that help automation testing of many browsers. Selenium allows us to automate in multiple languages such as Java, Python, CSharp,Ruby, JavaScript,Kotlin etc.

The list of key factors to take into consideration before making a decision:?

• Career Change to Develops or AI field or DevOps Role: It will be easier for people having Python knowledge to switch easily to better job opportunities because it can be used for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and Data Science. With the growing demand in industries like machine learning, data science, and cyber security, Python language earns slightly more than Java developers. This also depends on a lot of factors like location, skills, experience, and organization.
• Job opportunities: Java has more jobs in comparison to Python with Selenium. Don't blindly believe that you can check on LinkedIn the same.
• Object Oriented Programming Language: Both Java and Python support implementations of OOP(Object Programming Programming Language), but they do so in different ways: Java is designed to be a pure OOP language in which everything is a class whereas Python supports OOP, but it can also run code in a script mode without declaring any class at all.
• Platform independent: Both can be executed on MAC, Windows, and Linux supported platforms since they have their virtual machines (PVM and JVM respectively).?
• Performance/execution speed:? Python is an interpreted language a program's source code must first be converted into bytecode and then executed by the Python virtual machine. This additional step tends to make Python programs run slower than ones written in Java.
• Syntax: Python has easier syntax compared to Java. The Python Programming Language Syntax has many similarities to Perl, C, and Java Programming Languages. Because the readability and other structural elements of Python are designed to be easy to understand, especially for English speakers, it's relatively easy to learn.
• Popularity/support: Despite being GitHub having more code available for Python than Java, Despite Python being born first before Java, Java is still the most famous programming language because more jobs available on Java compared to Python also Java is a more established language compared to to Python.
• Speed: Selenium runs more quickly when Java is used and is faster than Python as it is a compiled language. Python is an interpreted language that determines the type of data at run time which makes it slower and less speed execution compared to Java.

Conclusion??

• The record shows that approximately 80% of the Software Testers use Selenium with Java. But it doesn’t mean that learning Selenium with Python is a waste of time.?Selecting the programming options like Java Selenium or Python Selenium framework depends on where you are going to use them.?

• Python is well-known in the programming world as an easy-to-learn, open-source, general-purpose programming language that is widely used worldwide, on the other hand, Java is a strong/robust, well-established programming language around the world.?All fresh start-ups and medium-sized enterprises favor Selenium Python binding due to its ease of setup.
• Hence, it is difficult to answer Selenium with Java or Python, which is better due to a lot of advantages and disadvantages on both ends.

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