Top Computer Languages
| Source | TIOBE Index |
| PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index | |
| Date | 11 Mar 2025 |
Python is the top programming language in the TIOBE and PYPL Index. Python has taken a lead of over 12% from C++ in TIOBE. In PYPL, a gap is much wider as top-ranked Python is ahead by over 15% from 2nd-ranked Java.
TIOBE: Python, C++, Java, and C are way ahead of others in the TIOBE Index. C++, Java and C are very close to each other at the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th numbers. C++ and C# have had positive trends in the past five years. These three have had negative trends in the past five years: Java, C, and PHP. PHP hit its lowest position (17th) ever in the TIOBE index in April 2024. PHP was in 3rd position in Mar 2010 and is now in 13th. C is now in its lowest 4th position. The rating of Java has declined from 26.49% in June 2001 to 7.87% in Jan 2024.
PYPL: According to PYPL, which publishes separate rankings for five countries, Python is the top language in all five countries (US, India, Germany, United Kingdom, France). Python has taken a huge lead in these five countries over the 2nd number of Java, and its shares are above 50% in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. Python and Java account for almost 45% of the global search. C/C++ is within the top five in four countries. JavaScript and C# are within the top five in three countries.
PHP is the biggest loser in recent years in PYPL. Its share was over 20% in 2008; now, this figure is only 3.74% in 2025. Java is declining too, but not as fast as PHP. Java's contribution was over 31% in 2008, and still, it holds 14.89%. In 2004-2009, 50% of the search was for either Java or PHP.
TIOBE Index: TIOBE ratings are calculated by counting hits of the most popular search engines. Twenty-five search engines are used to calculate the TIOBE index. The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index started in the year 2001 and updated once a month.
PYPL Index: The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google. The index is updated once a month.
| Mar 2025 | Mar 2024 | Change | Programming language | Ratings | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Python | 23.85% | +8.22% | |
| 2 | 3 | ↑ | C++ | 11.08% | +0.37% |
| 3 | 4 | ↑ | Java | 10.36% | +1.41% |
| 4 | 2 | ↓ | C | 9.53% | -1.64% |
| 5 | 5 | C# | 4.87% | -2.67% | |
| 6 | 6 | JavaScript | 3.46% | +0.08% | |
| 7 | 8 | ↑ | Go | 2.78% | +1.22% |
| 8 | 7 | ↓ | SQL | 2.57% | +0.65% |
| 9 | 10 | ↑ | Visual Basic | 2.52% | +1.09% |
| 10 | 15 | ↑↑ | Delphi/Object Pascal | 2.15% | +0.94% |
| 11 | 14 | ↑ | Fortran | 1.70% | +0.48% |
| 12 | 9 | ↓ | Scratch | 1.66% | +0.21% |
| 13 | 12 | ↓ | PHP | 1.48% | +0.16% |
| 14 | 17 | ↑ | Rust | 1.23% | +0.20% |
| 15 | 13 | ↓ | MATLAB | 0.98% | -0.26% |
| 16 | 21 | ↑↑ | R | 0.94% | +0.13% |
| 17 | 11 | ↓↓ | Assembly language | 0.87% | -0.52% |
| 18 | 24 | ↑↑ | Ada | 0.85% | +0.10% |
| 19 | 19 | Kotlin | 0.85% | -0.11% | |
| 20 | 20 | COBOL | 0.84% | +0.01% |
| Mar 2025 | Change | Programming language | Share | Trends |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Python | 30.27 % | +1.8 % | |
| 2 | Java | 14.89 % | -0.9 % | |
| 3 | JavaScript | 7.78 % | -0.9 % | |
| 4 | ↑ | C/C++ | 7.12 % | +0.6 % |
| 5 | ↓ | C# | 6.11 % | -0.6 % |
| 6 | R | 4.54 % | -0.1 % | |
| 7 | PHP | 3.74 % | -0.7 % | |
| 8 | ↑↑ | Rust | 3.14 % | +0.6 % |
| 9 | ↓ | TypeScript | 2.78 % | -0.1 % |
| 10 | ↑ | Objective-C | 2.74 % | +0.3 % |
| 11 | ↓↓ | Swift | 2.44 % | -0.3 % |
| 12 | Go | 2.06 % | -0.2 % | |
| 13 | Kotlin | 1.9 % | +0.0 % | |
| 14 | Matlab | 1.68 % | +0.1 % | |
| 15 | ↑ | Ada | 1.33 % | +0.3 % |
| 16 | ↓ | Dart | 1.03 % | -0.0 % |
| 17 | Ruby | 1.01 % | +0.0 % | |
| 18 | ↑↑ | Lua | 0.96 % | +0.2 % |
| 19 | ↓ | Powershell | 0.95 % | +0.0 % |
| 20 | ↓ | VBA | 0.9 % | +0.0 % |
| 21 | Scala | 0.59 % | -0.0 % | |
| 22 | Abap | 0.51 % | -0.0 % | |
| 23 | Visual Basic | 0.43 % | -0.1 % | |
| 24 | Julia | 0.39 % | +0.1 % | |
| 25 | Groovy | 0.17 % | -0.1 % | |
| 26 | ↑↑↑↑ | Zig | 0.17 % | +0.1 % |
| 27 | ↓ | Haskell | 0.15 % | -0.0 % |
| 28 | Cobol | 0.11 % | -0.0 % | |
| 29 | ↓↓ | Perl | 0.07 % | -0.1 % |
| 30 | ↓ | Delphi/Pascal | 0.03 % | -0.1 % |
| Mar 2025 | Programming language | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Python | 33.19 % |
| 2 | Java | 13.75 % |
| 3 | C/C++ | 9.14 % |
| 4 | R | 8.1 % |
| 5 | JavaScript | 6.93 % |
| 6 | C# | 5.52 % |
| 7 | Rust | 4.87 % |
| 8 | Swift | 4.61 % |
| 9 | Objective-C | 4.15 % |
| 10 | TypeScript | 3.13 % |
| 11 | Go | 1.57 % |
| 12 | Matlab | 1.09 % |
| 13 | PHP | 0.92 % |
| 14 | Ruby | 0.75 % |
| 15 | Powershell | 0.62 % |
| 16 | Kotlin | 0.4 % |
| 17 | Lua | 0.4 % |
| 18 | Delphi/Pascal | 0.13 % |
| 19 | Ada | 0.12 % |
| 20 | Julia | 0.1 % |
| 21 | Dart | 0.09 % |
| 22 | VBA | 0.07 % |
| 23 | Scala | 0.07 % |
| 24 | Zig | 0.05 % |
| 25 | Groovy | 0.04 % |
| 26 | Haskell | 0.04 % |
| 27 | Cobol | 0.03 % |
| 28 | Perl | 0.03 % |
| 29 | Visual Basic | 0.03 % |
| 30 | Abap | 0.03 % |
| Mar 2025 | Programming language | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Python | 33.95 % |
| 2 | Java | 24.15 % |
| 3 | JavaScript | 12.29 % |
| 4 | C# | 7.23 % |
| 5 | C/C++ | 6.97 % |
| 6 | PHP | 4.01 % |
| 7 | TypeScript | 3.17 % |
| 8 | R | 1.9 % |
| 9 | Kotlin | 1.58 % |
| 10 | Go | 1.35 % |
| 11 | Dart | 0.51 % |
| 12 | VBA | 0.51 % |
| 13 | Matlab | 0.46 % |
| 14 | Swift | 0.39 % |
| 15 | Abap | 0.38 % |
| 16 | Powershell | 0.24 % |
| 17 | Objective-C | 0.18 % |
| 18 | Rust | 0.17 % |
| 19 | Cobol | 0.16 % |
| 20 | Scala | 0.13 % |
| 21 | Ruby | 0.08 % |
| 22 | Julia | 0.06 % |
| 23 | Groovy | 0.06 % |
| 24 | Perl | 0.03 % |
| 25 | Visual Basic | 0.02 % |
| 26 | Lua | 0.01 % |
| 27 | Haskell | 0.0 % |
| 28 | Ada | 0.0 % |
| 29 | Delphi/Pascal | 0.0 % |
| Mar 2025 | Programming language | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Python | 56.84 % |
| 2 | Java | 15.2 % |
| 3 | Rust | 7.08 % |
| 4 | C# | 5.6 % |
| 5 | R | 2.67 % |
| 6 | C/C++ | 2.19 % |
| 7 | PHP | 1.5 % |
| 8 | Swift | 1.22 % |
| 9 | Go | 1.2 % |
| 10 | JavaScript | 1.01 % |
| 11 | Kotlin | 0.99 % |
| 12 | Objective-C | 0.91 % |
| 13 | Matlab | 0.81 % |
| 14 | Lua | 0.76 % |
| 15 | Ruby | 0.59 % |
| 16 | TypeScript | 0.5 % |
| 17 | Powershell | 0.22 % |
| 18 | Julia | 0.14 % |
| 19 | Abap | 0.14 % |
| 20 | Dart | 0.13 % |
| 21 | VBA | 0.12 % |
| 22 | Haskell | 0.1 % |
| 23 | Delphi/Pascal | 0.06 % |
| 24 | Cobol | 0.02 % |
| 25 | Visual Basic | 0.02 % |
| 26 | Scala | 0.0 % |
| Mar 2025 | Programming language | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Python | 60.83 % |
| 2 | R | 9.66 % |
| 3 | Java | 8.6 % |
| 4 | C/C++ | 6.61 % |
| 5 | C# | 4.18 % |
| 6 | JavaScript | 3.42 % |
| 7 | Rust | 1.12 % |
| 8 | Swift | 0.89 % |
| 9 | Haskell | 0.87 % |
| 10 | Objective-C | 0.86 % |
| 11 | PHP | 0.49 % |
| 12 | Go | 0.37 % |
| 13 | Kotlin | 0.36 % |
| 14 | TypeScript | 0.32 % |
| 15 | Matlab | 0.26 % |
| 16 | Ruby | 0.22 % |
| 17 | Dart | 0.22 % |
| 18 | Powershell | 0.22 % |
| 19 | Lua | 0.2 % |
| 20 | Julia | 0.14 % |
| 21 | Scala | 0.1 % |
| 22 | Ada | 0.04 % |
| 23 | VBA | 0.04 % |
| 24 | Groovy | 0.0 % |
| Mar 2025 | Programming language | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Python | 69.21 % |
| 2 | C/C++ | 6.44 % |
| 3 | Java | 4.07 % |
| 4 | Rust | 0.85 % |
| 5 | JavaScript | 0.5 % |
| 6 | R | 0.39 % |
| 7 | C# | 0.35 % |
| 8 | TypeScript | 0.32 % |
| 9 | PHP | 0.28 % |
| 10 | Kotlin | 0.25 % |
| 11 | Objective-C | 0.21 % |
| 12 | VBA | 0.18 % |
| 13 | Swift | 0.14 % |
| 14 | Go | 0.14 % |
| 15 | Visual Basic | 0.0 % |
| 16 | Perl | 0.0 % |
| 17 | Matlab | 0.0 % |
| 18 | Lua | 0.0 % |
| 19 | Powershell | 0.0 % |
| 20 | Haskell | 0.0 % |