By Paul Krill
Python has its largest lead ever in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity, having jumped ahead of second-place C language by nearly 4.5 percentage points.
Published yesterday, the Tiobe Programming Community Index of language popularity for March 2024 saw Python once again leading the index that C and Java once dominated. Python first topped the Tiobe index in October 2021. Elsewhere in the index, Scratch re-entered the top 10 and Rust climbed to 17th. Rust was 19th one year ago.
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The Tiobe index ranks programming languages based on the number of engineers, courses, and third-party vendors, which are measured using Google, Amazon, Wikipedia, Bing, and other websites.
The Tiobe index’s top 10 languages in March 2024:
The rival Pypl Popularity of Programming Language Index assesses ranks languages based on how often language tutorials are searched in Google. The Pypl index’s top 10 for March 2024:
