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The May 2024 TIOBE ranking shows Python soaring to a record 25.35% share, widening the gap over C++ and cementing its dominance in AI, data science, and automation, while highlighting the continued relevance of languages like Java, C++, and R for various development needs.
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 February 2025 index shows Python leading, C++ rising to second, Go staying in the top ten and Rust hitting a 1.47 % share, while a 1‑billion‑loop benchmark on a MacBook Pro finds Zig, Rust and C finishing in ~0.5 s versus Python’s 31.6 s and R’s 72.6 s, and survey data highlight Python’s dominance across data analysis, web development, DevOps, web crawling, machine learning and education.
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.
This article reports that C++ has overtaken C to rank second in the latest TIOBE index, outlines the historical evolution of C++ across three phases, highlights the recent record climbs of Go and Rust, and notes the broader usage of these languages despite the presence of promotional material.
The May 2024 TIOBE index shows an unchanged Top 5 with Python as the sole language gaining market share, while C and C++ fall due to memory‑safety concerns and PHP drops to a historic low amid competition from modern web frameworks.
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 article explains how Fortran re‑entered the TIOBE Top 10 in May 2024, detailing its long history, continuous standard updates, superior performance in numerical computing, open‑source advantages, and a comparative analysis with other popular languages.
The February 2024 TIOBE Index shows Go climbing to its highest ever position at #8, highlighting its design goals, historical ranking fluctuations, and widespread use in backend services, cloud computing, container technologies, networking, tooling, databases, and IoT, while also presenting the full top‑10 language list and related charts.
The January 2024 TIOBE Index reveals C# winning the 2023 Programming Language of the Year award, highlights Java’s market‑share loss and pricing controversy, showcases the rise of Kotlin, Fortran and COBOL, and offers expert predictions on which languages may break into the Top 20 next year.
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 August 2023 TIOBE ranking announced Julia's debut in the top‑20, highlighting its high‑performance, cross‑platform nature and extensive use in scientific computing, data science, machine learning, finance, engineering simulation, big data processing, and scientific visualization.
The August TIOBE Index shows Python retaining the top spot, Julia entering the top‑20 for the first time, detailed shifts among the top programming languages, and a comprehensive list of rankings from 1 to 100 with accompanying trend charts.
The TIOBE June 2023 ranking shows Python's share dropping to 13% amid rising competition from C, Java and C++, while AI-driven growth and new entrants like X++ and Raku highlight shifting trends in programming language popularity.
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 article explains why Go has entered the TIOBE top‑10, highlighting its built‑in concurrency, garbage collection, static typing, Google backing, and its role in projects like Docker and Kubernetes, while describing how the TIOBE index is calculated and how it can guide language selection decisions.
The December 2022 TIOBE Index shows the top 15 programming languages, with Python retaining its number‑one position and the top five remaining largely unchanged, reflecting the overall stability and shifting popularity of languages throughout the year.