Before 2016, TypeScript was not a top 10 language in GitHub's rankings but it climbed to seventh position in 2018 and over the past year has shot up to fourth spot, eclipsing C#, PHP and C++.

According to SlashData, there are now 8.2 million developers in the world who code using Python and that population is now larger than those who build in Java, who number 7.6 million.

Elsewhere in the TIOBE Index leaderboard, Python retains its vast lead over the rest of the top 10. Delph/Object Pascal fell in popularity month over month from 2.15% in TIOBE’s proprietary ...

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.

Python beats Java to become second-most popular programming language The TIOBE Index ranks the popularity of programming languages based on the number of skilled engineers worldwide, courses, and ...