With Tiobe’s February 2025 rankings, the publisher of the monthly index of programming language popularity notes that fast programming languages such as C++, Go, and Rust are gaining ground. But ...

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 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.

Go has since has been used to build popular projects such as Docker. The top five languages remained stable across the period, with Java leading, followed by C, C++, C#, and Python.

News. Java and C++ Lose Tops Spots in TIOBE Index for the First Time. By John K. Waters; November 5, 2020; For the first time since 2001, when TIOBE Software began publishing the results of its ...

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.

In April 2020, Java gave up its No. 1 spot to C o on the TIOBE index. Later, in 2021, Python became unstoppable and surpassed Java as well. Now, based on its sharp rise in June, it looks like C++ ...