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The TIOBE April 2025 programming‑language ranking reveals that former top‑20 languages Kotlin, Ruby and Swift are slipping in popularity, while cross‑platform frameworks like Flutter rise, and legacy "dinosaur" languages such as Delphi, Fortran, Ada and COBOL quietly re‑enter the top‑20 list.
The TIOBE March 2025 index reveals a surprising resurgence of legacy "dinosaur" languages like Delphi, Fortran, Ada, and COBOL alongside Python's continued dominance, highlighting how stability, performance, and entrenched enterprise systems drive language popularity trends across various domains.
The TIOBE July 2024 index shows Rust soaring to a record‑high 13th place, while Visual Basic, Fortran, SQL, MATLAB, Ruby, PHP, Swift, Assembly and Kotlin shift positions, reflecting search‑engine‑driven popularity trends that, though not quality indicators, help developers gauge skill relevance and inform language selection for new projects.
The latest TIOBE index shows Java falling out of the top three for the first time, C# overtaking it with a rapid market‑share gain, and Kotlin climbing back into the top twenty, while a detailed list of other languages and historical charts illustrate broader programming language trends.
The May 2024 TIOBE index shows Fortran re‑entering the top‑10 programming languages, driven by its long‑standing evolution, high performance in scientific computing, free open‑source nature, and sustained market interest compared with newer languages like Kotlin and Rust.
The October 2023 TIOBE programming language ranking reveals that C# is poised to surpass Java, which may fall to the fifth position, while also highlighting market‑share shifts, the historical rivalry between the two languages, and a broader overview of the top 50 languages.
The July 2023 TIOBE Index reveals that C++ has almost caught up with C, while JavaScript climbs to a historic high of #6, several languages return to record positions, and the full Top 100 ranking—including a detailed list of languages ranked 51‑100—is presented with trend charts and methodological notes.
The June 2023 TIOBE Index shows Python slipping to second place after a rapid rise driven by data science and AI, while languages like C, Java, C++ close the gap and newcomers X++ and Raku enter the top‑50, highlighting how AI adoption continues to shape programming language popularity.
The May 2024 TIOBE programming language index shows minimal changes in the top 20, with Go falling to #12, C++ climbing to #4 with over 3% growth, and newer languages like Swift and Rust still finding it hard to break into the top 100, while the CEO emphasizes the stability of language popularity.
The November TIOBE index shows Rust climbing into the top four while Python, C, Java and C++ maintain growth, presents the full Top 20‑50 language list, details the 51‑100 entries, and includes historical and celebrity rankings to illustrate long‑term popularity trends.
The November TIOBE ranking reveals Python, C, Java, and C++ maintaining top positions with steady growth, while Rust holding 20th place, and languages like Ruby, Swift, and Visual Basic declining, and Fortran falling out of the top 20, highlighting shifting trends in programming language popularity.
According to the latest August TIOBE ranking, Python's market share rose to a record 15.42%, while other languages such as PHP, Go, Ruby, Rust, and Kotlin experienced notable position changes, reflecting shifting popularity trends across the programming ecosystem.
RedMonk's Q1 2022 programming language ranking, based on GitHub and Stack Overflow data, lists the top 20 languages, highlights the overall stability of the rankings, and provides detailed commentary on notable shifts for languages such as Python, PHP, C++, TypeScript, Dart, Kotlin, and Rust.
The TIOBE Index for December 2020 shows C retaining the top spot while Java, Python, C++, and C# follow, highlights rapid growth for Python and several emerging languages, and presents detailed charts of top‑10 trends, other rankings, historical data, and annual award histories.
Analyzing eleven years of Stack Overflow data for the eleven most popular programming languages, this article uncovers the most frequent questions, dominant frameworks, libraries and data types that trouble developers, showing how language popularity and pain points have shifted over time.
The September 2019 TIOBE and PYPL programming language rankings show Python surging to third place, Java holding first, C++ slipping, while detailed analysis highlights trends, salary expectations, and the evolving popularity of languages such as Java, C, C++, Rust, Go, and Kotlin across the industry.
The article presents the latest TIOBE programming language rankings, highlighting Haskell's position at 23, notable moves for MQL4, Hack, and Elixir, and provides visual trend charts for the top 10 languages along with a disclaimer about the data's scope and limitations.
Based on GitHub and RedMonk statistics, this article reviews the most popular programming languages in 2016, explains why JavaScript, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, C++, and others rank highly, and offers guidance on choosing a language that fits individual career goals and project needs.