Python has its largest lead ever in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity, having jumped ahead of second-place C language by nearly 4.5 percentage points.

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Python also has a more than 15% lead over the next most popular language, C++. This is the first time in the index’s history any language has had such a significant lead.

C++ and C stayed in second and third place in August. Farther down the index, SQL rose from 10th place to seventh. Fortran took over 10th place, a drop from ninth for the venerable language.