Top programming languages: C's days at the top are numbered as Python comes for the crown

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The latest TIOBE scale features a fig of surges, shakeups and tumbles, arsenic assorted languages emergence successful the rankings and others spot marked twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth standing gains.

Each month, TIOBE releases an scale detailing the apical programming languages and these regular updates item granular shifts successful this ever-evolving landscape. As TechRepublic antecedently reported, past month's scale showcased "booming" AI and information mining programming languages and TIOBE's latest September roundup features a competitory logjam astatine the top, arsenic a longtime challenger comes for the crown.

Top programming languages: C, Python and Java

The choky three-language horserace betwixt C, Python and Java remains adjacent successful TIOBE's September index. Overall, C tops the latest rankings with an 11.83% rating, representing a year-over-year alteration of 4.12%. Despite this marked decline, C was inactive capable to borderline retired runner-up Python with the No. 2 touting an 11.67% and a year-over-year summation of 1.20%.

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"Python has ne'er been truthful adjacent to the fig 1 presumption of the TIOBE index. It lone needs to span 0.16% to surpass C. This mightiness hap immoderate clip now," said Paul Jansen, CEO TIOBE Software, successful a blog station astir the latest index. "If Python becomes fig 1, a caller milestone has been reached successful the TIOBE index. Only 2 different languages person ever been starring the battalion truthful far, i.e. C and Java. Let's spot what happens adjacent month."

Compared to September 2020, the 4th done seventh positions stay unchanged, featuring C++, C#, Visual Basic and JavaScript, successful order. Since past September, No. 8 Assembly Language has surged six spots (1.12%), present boasting a 2.42% standing and No.9 PHP has dropped a spot during this clip play with a 1.85% rating. Next, SQL rounds retired the apical 10 with a 1.80% rating, the aforesaid presumption the programming connection held successful TIOBE's September 2020 rankings.

Over the past year, Classic Visual Basic has surged 0.77% (11 spots) and present holds the No. 11 presumption with a 1.52% standing conscionable up of No. 12 Groovy (1.46%). It's important to enactment that Groovy's standing has accrued 0.48% implicit the past year; 1 of the largest year-over-year surges successful the apical 20 aft Python, C#, Visual Basic, Classic Visual Basic and Fortran. (More connected Fortran's ascent successful a bit.)

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In order, Ruby, Go and Swift clasp positions 13 done 15, akin to the aforesaid positions these languages held successful September 2020. In the latest index, No. 16 MATLAB carries a 1.02% rating, conscionable capable to outlast surging Fortran successful the 17th position; year-over-year Fortran has leap-frogged 20 spots with a 0.65% standing summation implicit this clip period. No. 18 R and No. 19 Perl person some recorded marked year-over-year declines, dropping 9 and 6 positions, respectively. Delphi/Object Pascal rounds retired the apical 20 with a 0.77% rating, up 9 positions and 0.24% since past September.