Tiobe believes “chances are high” that C# could replace C among the top three languages in the index. Also trending upward is C++, its rating rising 1.01 percentage points in the past year.

While C# fell short of Tiobe’s Programming Language of the Year honors for 2022, Tiobe expects the Microsoft-built object-oriented, type-safe language to snag the honor for 2023.

C# was the language with the largest usage uptick in one year (+1.43%), the company said. The runners up were Scratch (+0.83%), a visual programming language that allows students to create interactive ...

The TIOBE Programming Community Index shows trends in programming languages based on search engine volume. Trends year-over-year from the TIOBE Programming Community Index. Image: TIOBE Software ...

C#, meanwhile, ranked fourth in the overall standings for 2022 while falling to fifth in the "jobs" slice and sixth in the "trending" ladder. TypeScript actually moved up to ninth in the jobs ranking ...