The long-standing hegemony of Java and C is over," wrote Paul Jansen chief of Tiobe Software. "Python, which started as a simple scripting language, as an alternative to Perl, has become mature.

For the first time in Tiobe's long-running index, 35-year-old Python has overtaken Java to become the second-most popular programming language. Python, a top choice for data-science and machine ...

Python is the first programming language to climb to an 18% rating since Java, which rated 18% nearly eight years ago.

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Python’s long been the most widely used coding language, while also being among the easiest to learn, and most highly paid to know. As time goes on, more languages pop up, and as they age and develop ...

For the second year in a row, the Tiobe index identified Python as the programming language whose popularity increased the most.