Python, C, and C++’s rising popularity may make it difficult for other languages to catch up. No language outside the top four achieves a rating increase of more than 1 per cent in the top 50.

In the Tiobe Programming Community Index for September 2024, published September 7, the C language finished behind first-ranked Python, followed by C++ in second place and Java in third.

The C Programming Language is quite possibly the most influential language of all time. It powers OS kernels like Linux, ...

However, Python's runtime error-prone nature and limited performance leave room for other languages, such as Java, to remain competitive. Java, often hailed as the backbone of enterprise software, ...

Java showed a dramatic decline of -3.92% on TIOBE’s system. While the programming language still sits at number four, Jansen notes that C# has never been this close to catching up to Java.

"The gap between C# and Java never has been so small," says the latest edition of the TIOBE Index of programming language popularity. "Currently, the difference is only 1.2 percent, and if the trends ...