The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon.

Java searches were down 3.93% over the period, while Python gained 1.86%. The top 10 languages behind C, Java and Python are C++, C#, Visual Basic, Javascript, PHP, Assembly Language, and SQL.

The top five languages remained stable across the period, with Java leading, followed by C, C++, C#, and Python. However, C has suffered a dramatic decline in popularity, falling from 16 percent ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. James Gosling, the father of Java and a fellow at Sun ...

C++ ranks higher than Java in the Tiobe language popularity index for the first time ever, dating back to 2001. Java slipped to a new low in the latest edition of the index. The December 2002 ...

For Python versus other languages, the place where it really gets interesting is that the unit time per solution is lower than it is with languages like Java, C++ or C. Yeah, it’s interpreted (ish).

A study conducted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) put Python at the top of the list of favorite languages among such contenders as Java, JavaScript, C++, and Go.

C++ has passed Java “for the first time”, says TIOBE. Skip to main content ... JavaScript, and Ruby. Python came in at 4th place, with C and C++ not even making it into the top 10.

Are programmers in C/C++ more preferred at Google than programmers in Java? This question was originally answered on Quora by Gayle Laakmann McDowell.

Since then, every project I have worked on has had some influence from the C-family of programming languages. C++, Java, C#, Python, Perl, and even PHP all take their direction from this first-of ...