Python scales language popularity charts. news. Aug 6, 2018 2 mins. Java Python Software Development. ... If Python can surpass C++, it would be the language’s first foray into the Tiobe Top 3.

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.

Broader compiler support is driving a resurgence in interest in the nearly 35-year-old C++ programming language, which replaces Python in Tiobe's top 3.

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