Python stretches lead in language popularity index

Python has its largest lead ever in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity, having jumped ahead of second-place C language by nearly 4.5 percentage points.

Published yesterday, the Tiobe Programming Community Index of language popularity for March 2024 saw Python once again leading the index that C and Java once dominated. Python first topped the Tiobe index in October 2021. Elsewhere in the index, Scratch re-entered the top 10 and Rust climbed to 17th. Rust was 19th one year ago.

The Tiobe index ranks programming languages based on the number of engineers, courses, and third-party vendors, which are measured using Google, Amazon, Wikipedia, Bing, and other websites.

The Tiobe index’s top 10 languages in March 2024:

1. Python, with a 15.63% rating.
2. C, 11.17%
3. C++, 10.7%
4. Java, 8.95%
5. C#, 7.54%
6. JavaScript, 3.38%
7. SQL, 1.92%
8. Go, 1.56%
9. Scratch, 1.46%
10. Visual Basic, 1.42%

The rival Pypl Popularity of Programming Language Index assesses ranks languages based on how often language tutorials are searched in Google. The Pypl index’s top 10 for March 2024:

1. Python, a 28.59% share
2. Java, 15.79%
3. JavaScript, 8.7%
4. C#, 6.77%
5. C/C++, 6.76%
6. R, 4.71%
7. PHP, 4.5%
8. TypeScript, 2.86%
9. Swift, 2.74%
10. Objective-C, 2.4%