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.

We aggregated data from nine rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.