In winning the designation for 2020, Python jumped 2.01 percentage points last year in the Tiobe Index of language popularity, edging out C++, which increased 1.99 percentage points.

Python was the Tiobe Programming Language of the Year for 2021. Tiobe, which offers software quality services, attributed C++ popularity to excellent performance while being a high-level, object ...

“A Python program will consume more memory than a similar program built in a compiled language like C++ would. Python is not well suited for mobile, or desktop application development as well.” ...

A boom in machine-learning applications continues to drive up the popularity of 27-year-old Python, so much that it could soon outrank 33-year-old C++ on TIOBE's programming language index. Python ...

There appears to be a resurgence in interest in 35-year-old programming language C++, which has risen to third place in Tiobe's index for April 2019. C++ was created in 1985 as an extension of C ...

While Python is IEEE's lead programming language, the spotlight is on SQL, which leads the organization's jobs rankings.

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 ...

As of September 2020, C++ is the fourth most popular programming language globally behind C, Java and Python, and – according to the latest TIOBE index – is also the fastest growing.

Last month, programming language Python celebrated its 30th anniversary. But without a team to maintain it, the language would likely have never have become as popular as it is today. To find out ...