Software firm Tiobe's December 2020 programming language rankings place C as the most popular language, followed by Java, Python, C++, C#, Visual Basic, JavaScript, PHP, R, and SQL.

2 Python 3 Java 4 PHP 5 C++ 5 C# 7 Ruby 7 CSS 9 TypeScript 10 C 11 Swift 11 Objective-C 13 R 14 Scala 15 Go 15 Shell 17 PowerShell 18 Perl 19 Kotlin 20 Rust.

Marking a first, Python has displaced Java to take the number two ranking in the November 2020 edition of the Tiobe Index of programming language popularity. C held on to the top spot.

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