Discover the top 7 programming languages of 2025 based on the TIOBE Index. Learn about the trends in Python, Java, C++, SQL, ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit purposes.

Over the past few months, we've taken a comprehensive deep dive into the popularity of programming languages. Also: The most popular programming languages in 2024 But how do you measure popularity?

TIOBE Index News (December 2023): Smaller Programming Languages Are Rising in Popularity Your email has been sent The rise of smaller languages may be due to the number of programmers increasing or to ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

In brief: According to the Tiobe index of language popularity, the gap between Java and C# is so small that if the current trends remain unchanged, C# will overtake Java in about two months. Of all ...

Python has scaled to the top of the monthly PyPL language popularity index, overtaking Java. Also on the rise, in the rival Tiobe index, is Scala, which has again cracked the index’s Top 20. This ...

The enterprise platform again tops both the Tiobe and PyPL indexes thanks to changes that close the gap with functional programming languages Java’s popularity keeps climbing and climbing. Once again, ...