Java, the most popular language, has an index rating of 15 percent, while C has a rating of 13.3 percent. SEE: Six in-demand programming languages: Getting started (free PDF) ...

Programming language Python's popularity: Ahead of Java for first time but still trailing C Python is now the second most popular language in the nearly 20-year-old Tiobe index.

Python has long been a top-loved programming language, as has Java, but if Jansen is correct there could be a long-term shift coming in which Python becomes dominant simply because of how it’s ...