Python, C, and C++’s rising popularity may make it difficult for other languages to catch up. No language outside the top four achieves a rating increase of more than 1 per cent in the top 50.

We aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.

In the rival Pypl Popularity of Programming languages index this month, Kotlin was ranked 13th with a 1.76% share, having slipped slightly year-over-year.

In brief: Learning a programming language can be tricky, especially for someone new to coding. However, knowing the most popular languages may help some make a critical decision.

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.

Python is a general-purpose programming language used in web development, data science, machine learning, and much more. It provides a large array of libraries that are helpful to statistical and ...

It once held a share of over 25% of the community’s programming languages. However, it has seen a drop in popularity after Oracle introduced a paid licence model for the language in 2019.

F#, a functional language for Microsoft’s .Net platform, was ranked No. 20 in August, its first-ever entrance in the top 20. But it dropped to the 23rd-most popular language in the September report.

Java was the most popular programming language on the TIOBE index for several years, only conceding to C in certain months up to the start of 2020. At one point, it held a share of over 25% of the ...