“It is likely that it is Python’s next step to become the most popular programming language ever,” wrote TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen in the monthly release of the TIOBE Index.

Not since 2001, the year the TIOBE Index started, has a programming language held such a large percentage of community interest as Python does in 2025. Python is not the language with the highest ...

Python saw a whopping increase of 9.3% in the Tiobe popularity index during 2024, despite already being rated the most popular programming language.

Python is the first programming language to climb to an 18% rating since Java, which rated 18% nearly eight years ago. Python has scored its highest rating ever, 18.04%, in Tiobe’s index of ...