C#, an object-oriented language for building .NET applications, wins the award for the first time, Tiobe announced on January 6. The Tiobe Programming Community Index itself dates back to 2001.

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It provides language constructs to directly support object-oriented and component-oriented programming. This also makes it a natural choice for creating and using software components.

Microsoft describes .NET as “a consistent object-oriented programming environment, whether object code is stored and executed locally, executed locally but Internet-distributed, or executed ...