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.

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 year-over-year trends in programming languages based on search engine volume. In January 2024, the top three programming languages were Python, C and C++.

With its roots in the C family of languages, C# is familiar to programmers who have experience with C, C++, Java, and JavaScript. It provides language constructs to directly support object ...

"Today, asynchronous code is everywhere in the C# frameworks and libraries. It is almost impossible to program in C# without using await. I want to help other developers get a good handle on what ...

Elsewhere in the TIOBE Index, the programming language Go rose to position seven, a year-over-year doubling of its spot in the rankings. Rust reached an all-time high of 17th place.

Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto The National Security Agency (NSA) is urging developers to shift to memory safe languages – such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift – to protect their code ...