C and Java remain the most popular languages in the Tiobe community index, but Python is stalking them and will likely take top spot in the future. According to Tiobe's July 2021 index, the three ...

About 22 percent of all software programmers used C++, and 19 percent used C as of 2023, according to Statista, making them less popular than JavaScript, Python, Java and a few others.

Generative AI helped Python gain an even stronger foothold as the most popular programming language.

A study conducted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) put Python at the top of the list of favorite languages among such contenders as Java, JavaScript, C++, and Go.

Other languages with many millions of active developers include C#, C and C++, which popped up to third place in Tiobe's April 2019 index, thanks to broad compiler support from the likes of GCC ...